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[i]Find more of my reviews on my curator page: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45817624-Kasurot-Recommends/]Kasurot Recommends[/url][/i] [h2]Short Summary[/h2] A surreal, lo-fi horror experience that trades combat for conversation. It is a haunting, deliberately confusing journey through grief that rewards patience with genuine emotional depth. [h2]The Breakdown[/h2] [table] [tr] [td][h3]What We Loved[/h3][/td] [td]The "death as a mechanic" system is a brilliant narrative device. Traversing the dreamscape on a skateboard adds a surprising layer of fun to the exploration.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][h3]Minor Annoyances[/h3][/td] [td]The game is aggressively "self-obscuring"; getting lost is part of the design, which can be frustrating. Some backtracking is tedious, and the lack of a quest log demands intense player focus.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][h3]What It's About[/h3][/td] [td]A psychological descent into a fragmented world to find "pieces of your dad," serving as a dark metaphor for processing trauma and memory.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][h3]How It Plays[/h3][/td] [td]Exploration, dialogue, and skating. You wander a non-linear map, talk to entities to unlock paths, and intentionall…

hidden gem

My dad's dead too. I also was catfished by a cute girl once.

Deserves way more attention.

A small adorable game, a surreal journey through a small dreamscape world full of unexpectable imagery and memorable characters spiraling into a madness of total derealization. The topics this game brings are creepy sometimes, sometimes are hilariously funny but even then those never felt ordinary. I loved this game much and I will follow the developer for the next game, there already is a demo I saw.

this game is weird. like really weird. but it's so good