Navicula Meatus

longotojosotojo

Why watch the news when you can watch your cutlet rotating so gracefully.

This game really makes you FEEL like a meaty. Feels like trying to do a dissection lab with no hands, the lights off, and the instructions are in chinese. 10 mystery sausages out of 10. 10 sublime ambiences out of 10. 10 letter M's out of 10.

This game is simply amazing. The atmosphere here is top notch. Every single sprite, sound and movement is used to deliever the sensation that you're in an alien, surreal and barely understandable environment and it works just perfectly. It gives you enough to always kind of know what is happening and what you're looking at, but mostly, you'll have at least some doubts, letting your immagination always run wild. The gameplay is simple and yet incredibly satisfying. Figuring out by yourself how to interact with the world, the menus etc feels rewarding exactly because no one helped you in the process and it's also why keeping things so minimalistic worked so nicely. It's not one of those mega-cryptic things that will require you to pull out a guide every two seconds. Everything is really understandable, you just need to pay a little bit of attention. The duration of the experience too is just well calibrated enough. I had a blast with this one from start to finish (and I'm sure I'll dig back in for the few last achievements I missed). Please give this one a try.

Incredible cool system by way of taking a familiar gameplay loop and abstracting & burying it under enough Gigeresque & Hylicsian scuzz to make the game just as much about figuring out what the ♥♥♥♥ you’re doing as actually doing it. The pleasure comes in getting to know (while not really knowing) these little gleep glorps and their meaty distorted world, a familiarity in the uncanny of routine and “ok so I think this guy is who I need to get this from next to give to this guy who screams”. Short but sweet and even manages to squeeze in some good humor about the whole thing.

Good gooby game!