June 28, 2023 - Day 179 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 198
Game: Recursive Ruin
Platform: Steam
Release Date: May 18, 2022
Library Date: Jun 8, 2023
Unplayed: 20d
Playtime: 29m
Recursive Ruin is a first person narrative-based puzzle game about grief.
I read about this game last year, and added it to my wishlist; when it popped up on sale three weeks ago, and so I added another game to the pile of shame.
The game's conceit is in the title, because a large chunk of the game's environments are recursive. This is deeply disorienting, and feels like the diametric opposite of a cozy game.
It's standard WASD keyboard and mouse navigation, and with the addition of what is, effectively, a companion cube, it's a bit like "What would it be like to play Portal on psychedelic drugs?"
This is an interesting, but disquieting game; I'm genuinely not sure if I like it, or just solving puzzles.
Recursive Ruin is:
3: OK
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