How to Say Goodbye

How to Say Goodbye is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as if it was a real PC game (it's not)... it's a cash grab from greedy mobile devs. This mobile app is an interactive art exhibition where you take on the role of a dead French person and must guide the ghost through various grid pathing puzzles to get to the afterlife from purgatory. While the presentation, as an art piece, seems reasonable for a mobile app, it doesn't look anywhere as good as games like Expedition 33. Also, this is a mobile app that's pretending to be a PC game when it's not, and this was done purely as a cash grab. So, it's hard to describe this as a game, the focus of the product is more like that of a mildly interactive "art" experience, there's only minor, shallow and uninteresting gameplay elements. The crux of this is to push a mediocre "experience" at gamers of the kind you would normally see in a public art gallery on amateur week. It's true games can be art, that's where the pinnacle of technology and design meet, this fails at both. The Mona Lisa wouldn't be hanging on the wall at the Louvre if she was drawn in crayon on a bar mat. It's true that games can be art, of course... art i…

Neat little puzzle game that also incorporates themes of loss and acceptance of death. I found it did a really good job of incorporating the story subtly and letting the gameplay shine along with it. The puzzles are essentially kind of like a sliding block puzzles (but way more enjoyable), but with some slight complexities due to the way the grid can create loops on itself. The game also is really good at adding elements in over time kind of like how Portal does it, so the puzzles feel quite varied the whole runtime. There were some levels that felt a bit more open which was neat and unexpected too. Not the hardest puzzle game out there, but really satisfying to solve and mostly doesn't have any tedious aspects to it. The game was clearly built with mobile touch controls in mind. Translating this to mouse is pretty obvious although I felt that it was a bit slow dragging around the tiles with a mouse. I ended up using a controller and that worked surprisingly well due to the grid setup and being able to quickly skip to character or important items using triggers. Touch controls would probably be best, but it was still good. As I already said, I found the story well executed since …

Good for smartphones Not very good on pc.. controls are frustrating at times Story is not catchy either

love the art style and the puzzles!! wished it was a bit longer

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The subject itself may be heavy, but the presentation is pretty much chill and childish. Can't say I'm impressed nor disappointed, it's overall a decent game with good puzzles.