Ever Forward

ChatGPT reviews are wrong, this is the prequel to Portal: Cube You play as little Caroline and her cube—I don't care I even added an em dash to make it factual

Just get the game. It is on sale right now, and it is a really great puzzle game that can be very challenging and hard midway through toward the end. Once you figure out how to do the puzzles, they become easy and nice for exercising your mind every once in a while. The story is interesting and heartbreaking, and it is exactly how the developers intended to present the game in the trailers. Good game. Buy it.

I had a lot of fun solving these puzzles. I felt they were quite unique!

TLDR; Good graphics, puzzles ez besides timing puzzles due to unintuitive-ness, story lacks punch As other reviews mention, graphics are good. Puzzles are easy enough, except I personally don't consider the last one or two 'puzzles' to be puzzles. They're mainly timing based with barely enough intuitive mechanics to actually understand the timing. Personally, the story is meh, as the ending doesn't personally hit enough due to no character building/emotional attachment to said characters. After your little flying cube companion unlocks the ability to fly, rooms became unnecessarily large to begin the puzzles. I wouldn't mind the slow movement/large "hub" world of the grassy area if there was at least some sort of sprint. If the puzzle locations were closer together, this would also make it more appealing.

About 2.5h long. A walking simulator with a few puzzles and story bits inbetween. The story consists of slice of life scenes and doesn't explain much. There are three somewhat challenging puzzles, the rest is easy. Two missable achievement ("A Tree Reborn" and "Leafless").

Ever Forward, developed and published by Pathea Games, is a contemplative puzzle-adventure that blends quiet storytelling with increasingly demanding logic challenges. It follows Maya, a young girl caught in a surreal limbo shaped by fragments of memory and emotional trauma. Rather than presenting its narrative directly, the game unfolds through symbolism and environmental cues, asking the player to piece together meaning from scattered moments. This restrained approach gives the story a reflective, almost dreamlike quality, though it also means that much of its emotional impact depends on how much the player is willing to interpret and engage with its subtleties. The gameplay is structured around discrete puzzle chambers that function almost like self-contained tests of logic. Early on, the mechanics feel straightforward—pushing objects, activating switches, and navigating simple layouts—but the game steadily layers additional systems that complicate each scenario. Players must account for line-of-sight restrictions, timing-based hazards, teleportation devices, and stealth elements that introduce pressure into what might otherwise be a purely contemplative experience. At its best…