DREAM LOGIC

This game has me split between liking and not liking it. I hate the minutes long, unskippable cutscene at the start, but i really liked the pool section. The puzzle at its end was a bit confusing, until you realize all that matters are the symbols on top of the cylinders you can turn, and its the ground pools layout. The sides of the cylinders that ALSO have symbols, seem completely irrelevant, which isnt great and just confusing imo. I really did not like the inclusion of some shoehorned in story, into an hour long game where you NEVER interact with said story. Its just the first cutscene, vaguely describing the locations youll visit, and thats it. Even the like 2-3 notes you find, dont play any part into this set up story. Games like this dont need a story, the whole part of the liminal type games for me is thinking: "I dont know where i am, i dont know who i am, i dont know whats going on, all i know is i must walk." And thats perfectly fine. Giving your character any kind of background, removes a gigantic portion of any kind of mystery, for absolutely no benefit. It makes games like this strictly worse for me. But what broke the camels back for me, was the jumpscare, and not …

A unique take on liminal space games, the puzzles are decent, the environments are good, bit short, but its a fine little game. 7/10

the game is like a fine indie game that could easily be a decently made roblox game, but i got no clue why it has such great reviews, maybe because its not terrible? but i played games like this or better with way worse reviews the story parts are corny and dont make sense with randomly spread out notes trope, the game just kinda ends randomly too? the graphics are most notably not great either or very atmopsheric for a backrooms game, for instance one part where the heathrow hotel windows are seen its litterally just concrete blocks with holes in them, the graphics are so cheap the game is also incredibly shrot even making a 5 dollar price tag questiionable i wish i could choose neither negative or positive but im gonna choose negative despite the game being totally fine playing experince and still cheap mostly, because its not much of anyhting in terms of a game

Overall this game was kind of fun. It was worth the price I paid (2 bucks) however I don't think this game is worth purchasing at full price. The storyline doesn't align with the gameplay. The beginning of the game leads the player to think that the goal is to find missing persons or identify how they disappeared, but the gameplay doesn't connect to that at all. The storyline is virtually pointless. If the game is on sale and only a dollar or two it's worth purchasing and I would recommend it. Otherwise save your 5 bucks.

Actual biggest fear

a really short but extremely well made backrooms spinoff. i REALLY enjoyed playing this. could be better optimized, but on the other hand, the graphics are really beautiful and add a hell of a lot to the immersion.