Maquette

The puzzle design in the game is brilliant, but the puzzles are very limited. There is some replayability in terms of speedruns, which are surprisingly fun. The entire presentation is quite beautiful, including the look-and-feel, the voice acting (Bryce Dallas Howard and Seth Gable!), and music in particular. The story is not super-necessary, not super-new, and not super-exciting, but still quite enjoyable, especially because it is more of a background element rather than the protagonist. I was somewhat surprised when the actual puzzling was over (there are elements in between that are more walking-simulator-like) and I really had liked more puzzles. However, the game left me with a satisfying feeling of closure, hence the positive feedback.

It was fun up until one of the puzzles required a jump that is extremely glitchy. The jump kept clipping on the geo at the jump point, so I assumed it was not the solution (other parts of the map do that to signal you can't jump here). Gave up and looked it up, and got super frustrated a core component to the solution was so broken.

An excellent perspective puzzle game with a beautifully simple story that colors the stunning world in just the right tones. A few technical hiccups here and there, but overall an experience I highly recommend to those with a few hours spare looking for a cozy, rewarding puzzler.

This is a well made fun puzzle game driven by an emotional rollercoaster of a story. It's right in the sweet spot of gameplay and storytelling. I'm a chronic cutscene skipper, because it often feels like being trapped in a slow car ride with a boring driver. This game is whatever the opposite of that is, although I'm feeling a little crushed.

Visually stunning but deeply unsatisfying. The puzzles lack logical progression (either very repetitive or arbitrarily difficult with unintuitive solutions). The romantic subplot feels clichéd and disconnected from the gameplay, and the pop soundtrack doesn't add much to the experience...

Completely underrated puzzle game with concept that was back then ground breaking and an art direction that only gets better with modern settings