Hypogea

Genuinely an incredible experience from beginning to end. The gameplay is extremely intuitive and controls feel smooth and responsive. The visual design of Hypogea succeeds with flying colors at evoking the feel and style of the early 2000s graphics. I loved the ambience and the story was incredibly well done for something with no dialogue. Everything is shown to you, not told, and it works extremely well. The puzzles and level design were very well made and I enjoyed looking for secrets and collectibles. What keeps this from being a perfect game for me is for one, length, its extremely short. I would have loved to play this for 4-6 more hours, but I respect the quality over quantity approach here. Secondly, qol, i liked the collectibles, but wish the level select told you how many you were missing in each level so you know where to look. A final nitpick would be the responsiveness of the wall-clinging, which sometimes did not work properly and would send you falling, but the game saves checkpoints very frequently, so it wasn't too large of an inconvenience. I would really really love to see a sequel that expands on the gameplay and is much longer. 9/10

Amazing game with an incredible setting. Really looking forward to more from this developer.