Kine

Joyita oculta

I love this game! Honesty, it has one of the best blend of narrative with actual gameplay mechanics I've seen. Puzzles are great and quite challenging. Story is touching, characters are charming and the whole game just feels loved by the devs! Gonna recommend Kine with every opportunity I will get.

A nice puzzle game with a good score and surprisingly nice dialogue, if not story; the musical theme isn't just window dressing! The mechanics aren't quite there all the time, some of the later levels have a degree of complexity that made the puzzles more annoying than engaging, but I still had fun for most of the game. It's not without flaws though, mainly with its UX: accessing the menu requires to press ESC to leave a given puzzle; resetting a puzzle can takes several seconds, inexplicably; you can't reverse accidentally resetting a puzzle; cycling through the characters gets confusing and annoying once you get to Euler. In particular, the game could've benefited from a "press 1 2 3 to choose this character or that" and instead only has a single button to cycle through them in one direction; bizarre choice (or lack of insight?) considering you can choose individual characters with the mouse by clicking on them or on their icon on screen. Ultimately they're small flaws though, as I had a great time despite them! The game itself isn't a pure sokoban, instead it revolves around directly maneuvering, rotating, and pushing your cubic pieces around until they're oriented the right way to reach your goal. If this sounds annoying, you're probably better off avoiding this. If you're on the fence, know that there's some very nice writing in this, something that will keep you entertained even when the puzzles have you stumped! And for better or worse, sometimes they WILL have you stumped, trust me. I'll gladly check the dev's other game on Steam sometime in the future.