Navicula Meatus

One of the coolest games i've played. Such a cool atmosphere and a superb concept. Go in fully blind and bring a pen and paper (helps a ton)

Simplemente de locos. Un mundo en el que al principio no entiendes nada pero que te atrapa irremediablemente. De estos juegos que te hacen pararte a observar y a sacar lápiz y papel para resolver sus puzzles, y que tras cada uno de ellos te mete las ganas de volver a jugar con el nuevo conocimiento obtenido a ver que mas cosas extrañas y chulísimas te encuentras.

Absolutely amazing game, never played anything quite like it, very much reminded me of Vermis conceptually

This game is simply amazing. The atmosphere here is top notch. Every single sprite, sound and movement is used to deliever the sensation that you're in an alien, surreal and barely understandable environment and it works just perfectly. It gives you enough to always kind of know what is happening and what you're looking at, but mostly, you'll have at least some doubts, letting your immagination always run wild. The gameplay is simple and yet incredibly satisfying. Figuring out by yourself how to interact with the world, the menus etc feels rewarding exactly because no one helped you in the process and it's also why keeping things so minimalistic worked so nicely. It's not one of those mega-cryptic things that will require you to pull out a guide every two seconds. Everything is really understandable, you just need to pay a little bit of attention. The duration of the experience too is just well calibrated enough. I had a blast with this one from start to finish (and I'm sure I'll dig back in for the few last achievements I missed). Please give this one a try.

This is what happens when you mix Bernband with that alien-meat game from Last Call BBS where you have no idea how anything works and initially seems inscrutable. Navicula Meatus is pretty good but mind you, this is for the sickos.

[b]"thick synovial effluvium"[/b] 💖🖤🖤 🟩 just a great look and feel to it, nice meaty noise ambience 🔷 fun exploring first half 🔴 kinda weak in the second half, poor puzzles [b]vibes:[/b] surreal meat [b]loops:[/b] walk around as a confused newborn and show strangers the things you just found on the street while they babble words at you [b]ramblings:[/b] the art and atmosphere is amazing. but, i think this would've been better if it had just been an exploration game, because its puzzles are not very well designed. the first area is an incredibly cool environment to explore, and by far the best developed and most interesting part of the game. that's roughly the first half or so of the game, i like it a lot even if the 'puzzle' of the actual level is fairly simple at its core, since this is where you're first learning what anything even is it kind of obscures that and blends together. unfortunately, it's sort of downhill after that.  like one area is a maze, just a literal hedge maze. dull. boring. no further notes. another has something that is at least interesting and thematic, but the puzzle is just... not great, it pointlessly wastes your time with its mechanics. you need to assemble something out of items. you don't get to choose which items you get though. you're just repeating a cycle of "receive item, examine item with machine, check if item is correct, no? throw in trash, repeat." like it doesn't waste a lot of time but it wastes enough to be really tedious as you're trying different possible ideas for solutions.  i love some of the design decisions going on here, even if or maybe because they're a little hostile. making the ui hard to grasp and having npcs talk to you in meat language, the game being kinda incomprehensible and having that itself as a puzzle is great. i liked this enough that i thought simply giving the player the ability to turn it into plain english with little friction sorta spoiled it. the style is off the charts. but the actual game game? the puzzles? sorta poor. sweet dance moves though. [b]verdicts:[/b] i liked it, only really for that first area. it's a cool experience, but it's entirely carried by the aesthetic and concept. once you understand a bit more what's going on and get past that first part, you're just left with a sorta meh game. i'd recommend it for that first area experience alone though. [b]scores:[/b] 🫀 out of 🦀 [b]forms:[/b] 📟 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3714746406