Epitasis

A nice-sized puzzle game with a very pleasant setting and some nice music. (And some nice cosmetic touches like time of day and rain that keep it novel when you're running around trying to retrace your steps to that location you now know how to get past.) Don't expect to learn too many secrets, though, it's very light on explicit story.

That was a very nice little 3-hour journey through a low-poly, synthwave planet with "lite" puzzle elements. Having just played Talos Principle, I can say that the "puzzles" (such as they are in Epitasis) are very simple. They're usually of the form "Put cube on pressure plate". Don't play this if you're expecting a tough challenge. I'd call this an easy afternoon walking simulator with gorgeous synthwave-style neon graphics and music. At first you can be a little confused as to what's going on, but after a few minutes you soon figure it out. Each area boils down to "turn on the lasers until a threshold reached. Take mcguffin that appears, and place mcguffin on a pedestal". I enjoyed it, but finished it in 3 hours, so get it on sale if you can.

I LOVE playing this game to wind down after a long work shift. I played this game mostly on my steam deck and for a long time every time I played I always fall asleep about 10-30 minutes of game time. So my progress was very slow. It was until I finally tried to move my save file to my pc because I wanted to experience the game on a bigger screen with better visual settings and sadly I couldn't get it to transfer. So I started the game from scratch and didn't realize how short this game is/realize how close I was to finishing the game. I got stuck when trying to get the circle puzzle piece so I had to go around the game a few times before finding what I missed, but overall I enjoyed it and will definitely enjoy the soundtrack. I recommend this to anyone looking to play a game to help wind down/relax on the couch/bed or on your steam deck. I think my total play time on the steam deck is 3 hours but PC takes more because I started from the beginning and sped through until I got to where I was. However, I played more on my steam deck because after a few minutes I just end up falling asleep 😂

Игрунька крайне странная, я фанат головоломок от 1-го лица и это было моим худшим опытом. Механика головоломок схожа с Порталом, Талосом, но геймдизайн все портит напрочь. Почему? Сама графика ладно, терпимая. Но чтобы начать решать головоломки ты их должен для начала найти и не заблудиться, ведь карта тут огромная и нет никаких природных подсказок куда надо идти(по типу еле видных тропинок). Также механика телепортов, которых тут тоже дофига, ужасная из-за чего вы рано или поздно потеряетесь. Но что самое важное - сами головоломки, они тут ужасно скучные. Мне прям нехватало еще чего-то. В общем не советую данную игру, лучше еще раз перепройти Порталы, Талосы и другие культовые игры.

Zero story. Ending is just a puzzle-solve-to-blank-screen. Glad I gave up and watched a walk though. I wanted an adventure, not a meh put-boxes-on-buttons while moving-way-too-slow game

This is a terrific game: simple, beautiful (both appearance and sounds), and relaxing. The puzzles are not demanding - if they were, the whole experience would be much less. The player's attention would be taken up with worrying about that, rather than enjoying the experience as a whole. In short: if you want to show off to yourself about how clever you are, this may not satisfy you. If you want to enjoy something beautiful and creative on its own terms, you will probably love it as I did.

Looks interesting, probably a nice puzzler. However, uplayable for me on a Macbook Pro released in the same year, but after, the game came out on Mac. The Macbook has better specs than "recommended". Had to crank resolution and other graphic settings down very far. (For comparison, this Macbook has run Shadow of the Tomb Raider successfully, played that through twice.) But I would probably still mark this as unusually frustrating, because it's possible to wonder for hours through the portals without getting to the second puzzle element. Admittedly, the choppy graphics, even at the reduced specs, imbued the whole experience with a touch of motion sickness, which I don't usually get. I'll have to wait to play this on a much higher spec machine, to update this review.