Witch Strandings

Very short, mildly interesting, nowhere close to worth the price. Forgetable.

UI hurts my eyes. Not for me.

The UI hurts my eyes. You are not allowed to edit settings until you pass the tutorial. Alot of reading and sudden death situations. Not very fun.

I'll probably never understand this game, but I enjoy it!

It could have been interesting if it didn't actively hurt to play. It would have been so much nicer if I didn't have to sweep my mouse all over the place just to move. Maybe just keyboard or joystick style controls would have been better.

A really strange title. Your mouse cursor is your character and different tile types impede your movement, so to build paths you grab items and click and drag them into place. It's a simple narrative, but it is fun to free wheel around the map with your little light orb once you've built paths for yourself. Traversing the forest grid is almost meditative, and the soundtrack really adds to this trance-like play state. There's some interesting bits of description surrounding the animal characters but nothing that gives enough depth to sink emotional hooks into the player. It would have been nice to see a few more endings to this bare bones story to give it a little more depth and punch, or procedural generation on the level itself to give the game a little more replayability, but I enjoyed my time with this game so I'm recommending it. This title has definitely inspired me to look for games with this type of abstract, minimalist style. If you are a game designer or like trying games that are experimenting with off beat gameplay styles, this is a title for you.