The music and voice acting is on point too, creating an immersive atmosphere and a living community.

It could have been a classic, if it wasn’t for the writing and gameplay. Unfortunately, when the novelty of the visuals begins to fade, the game suddenly feels very boring. The gameplay involves fetch quests, talking to one character on behalf of another and going through lists of chores, making it feel more like a chore than a game.

It’s a shame the developers didn’t spend more time creating logical puzzles, object combinations and the gameplay elements that make point and click adventures so satisfying and fun to play.

As for the story, it’s overwhelmingly bland and also quite cliched, drawing on many other dystopian works of fiction before it.

That’s not to say it’s a bad game, but it doesn’t live up to its visuals.

I generally found it pretty simple and usually the number of options were pretty limited. It took me just under an hour to go through both the main game and the 2012 demo with occasional random clicking. There are some nice story concepts in there, although without any text or dialogue it is left kinda ambiguous. Some of the story concepts are a bit dark, but I don’t think they would be upsetting to a young child because I don’t think they would understand why it could be upsetting.

There was one timing-based puzzle that felt slightly tight to me (there were two other puzzles with timing elements but they felt super generous - the first one was still generous but I missed the timing once or twice while figuring it out).

Maybe I’m just too comfortable with these kinds of visual puzzles but this felt too straight-forward and minimally story-driven for me to really enjoy it or recommend it.