Kindred

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Controls don't make any sense (not even inside menus,) the objective is unclear, and so is the gameplay. It's all very clumsy, not engaging. And the constant broken glass visual is not helping.

After achieving both endings (As far as I could tell there are only two), my thoughts are this: I found the art style, while fairly basic, to be charming in it's own way. I didn't mind the visuals overall, although glass cracking effect was a little intense for me. The story was...hard to pick up? It's very bare bones, and even between the two endings, I'm not exactly sure what themes or messages I was meant to interpret from them. My biggest gripe was the gameplay itself. It felt very clunky, and I had to really struggle to get the boy and the objects in the world where I wanted them to be. On top of the initial frustration with the controls and mechanics, sometimes I would completely lose control of any input, and the boy would throw himself off of a height, leaving me to start all the way over. I also found the level design hard to grasp. There were a lot of locations that could be traversed to, but the purpose of doing so seemed absent. It seemed liked you could just continue moving to the tree house, climb up, and finish the game. Another big frustration I had with the game was a lack of a save mechanic. I encountered a bug that caused me to lose all climbing progress…

Simple But Really Good Game

Gameplay https://youtu.be/BzH-JO9ZukY

Wow, that ending gave me goosebumps!