Virus Brain

The main character jumps out of a window right at the start. Honestly, POV: you are playing the 100th indie game you bought on sale, and things only get worse from there.

[b]"a perfect girl is evil"[/b] 🖤🖤🖤 🟩 good music 🔷 interesting vibes 🔴 weak puzzles and platforming [b]vibes:[/b] moody [b]loops:[/b] linear first person adventure with some puzzles and platforming [b]states:[/b] finished 2 out of 2? endings [b]ramblings:[/b] i enjoyed it for its surreal unsettling ambience, good atmospheric music, and snowman jokes. but everything else is just sort of eh. the game feels like it has an identity crisis.  · it classifies itself as a "postmodern edutainment" game, but the kanji concept is very underutilized, many of the puzzles that use it you can even just ignore the kanji. there are doors that require picking the correct word, english words, why not kanji? there's cipher puzzles, which were actually sort of interesting, and they also don't incorporate kanji.  · it has some platformer elements. there are random pits and spikes, but they're never a challenge, just a minor obstacle to break up the hallways. there are sections with more, moving platforms and such, nothing terribly difficult. though i'm glad it wasn't more because it's first person and there's zero air control so it all just feels clunky.  · there's a moment…

interesting

A cute little puzzle game where you piece the story as you advance. The music fits the mood, the atmosphere conveys exactly the depressing hellhole feeling despite the game having simple graphics and the use of kanji for puzzle felt fresh as I don't remember any other game doing something like this. Sadly the game is pretty short, about an hour for the first time ( I guess it doesn't overstay its welcome). But I think it could've gone on a bit longer especially with the kanji puzzle being all relatively easy, and at the same time completely absent from the hardest puzzle the game has to offer. When you finish the game it feels like you spent more time decrypting random cypher than engaging with the main mechanic. Still, I liked this game and if you're looking for a good puzzle game that has an interesting story you should go for it.

Surprisingly effective horror gem!

An entertaining surreal puzzle platformer with multiple endings. Neither the platforming or puzzles are very tough. I got two endings after around 3 hours, but it may vary depending on your skill (in mostly puzzles) and whether you looked in the dicussion section on steam for where the secret items are. I've no clue how many endings there are in total. The game's probably worth it at full price, but it's a "no brainer" on sale.