12 Minutes

Yes

Looks a mixed bag out there:

IGN and Greg Miller liked it.

PC Gamer didn't like it.

But was it Edwin

Played a bit of it and it gets dark.. quick.


Enjoyed weekday I've played so far

I accidentally finished it yesterday. If you’ve ever played a point and click adventure, or games with conversation trees, it’s pretty simple to make progress.

I saw a lot of folk in the GamePass thread lamenting that you have to listen to the same three lines of dialogue at the start each time. It’s about ten seconds. I’m not sure what to say to people with that short an attention span?

I thought it was ok. The animations are janky as fuck. There are rendering glitches with hands clipping through objects and wotnot. But it’s not trying to be anything it isn’t. It’s a one scene play that loops. I’d say we should applaud people making stuff like this, and forgive it some jank.

That said, I’d be a bit pissed if I’d parted with too much cash for it. I reached the end in about three hours.

Yeah - you just have to be careful where you "click" because you can also early exit a conversation which will often prompt a response from the speaker. "How rude!" or a knuckle sandwich.

The game is definitely a bit up its own arse. The writer was aiming for an M. Night Shyamalan style twist, but ultimately it's just a pretzel twist to shoehorn in some "oh my gorsh!" drama at the end there. A swing and a miss for me. But I enjoyed the escape room vibe of the rest of it - not the worst way to spend a few hours.

I know value is a tricky subject, but I'd be fuming if I'd paid the £21 RRP for this.

Yeah, but this pretzel is made of actual human excrement.

It's the perfect GamePass fodder - not so much for how good it is, but for how much good you'll extract from it and then say "glad I didn't spend twenty quid on that!"

Reading the development blog, the core team was literally a handful of people. A Labour of love for sure I imagine, but I'd question the need or use of what I would imagine to be very expensive actors that don't really add a great deal. Does it really need Daisy Ridley, James Mcavoy and Willem Dafoe? I'm not even sure the star power works on a game like this.

On such a niche concept, I think reletive unknown voice actors and knocking a fiver off the price might have been the better option.

Can't fault the ambition of someone putting their money where their mouth is and making something this unique though. If this is one person's vision, it definitely beats a reskinned shinobi with Freddie Mercury end of level boss.

Yep. It's a little known fact that Daniel Day Lewis does the gasp of breath at the start of every loop in Outer Wilds. He actually single-handedly built a wooden spacecraft in researching for the role.