Review of Maquette by Nico2021

An enjoyable adventure with enviromental puzzles. Most part of the game you control the size of items and use them to solve puzzles in two identical worlds where one is miniature of the other. The puzzles have medium difficutly generally and need some thinking. I was stuck 4 times through the game and had to look for hints. Last chapter has some quite difficult puzzles. On ps5 there are hints with the new game help feature that makes it easier to check for if you cant solve a puzzle. I found the puzzles fun but at the same time some of them took some time to figure out and needed a lot of imagination.

I liked the story that has a mature tone and is about relations. There is no interaction with other people as the game has no npc. You are just alone exploring, sovling puzzles and having memories of your relation.

Graphics are great, music also is pretty good.

Only negative i can say is that controlling the items you find is not that smooth and fluid, and there is some effort involved when you try to place them with the right angle. Also, technically the game seemed to drop frames at some times but nothing that would affect gameplay.

Verdict: A nice, fun but short adventure that i would suggest trying if you like enviromental puzzles. It costs around 15-20 euro at the moment on steam and ps5 which is a nice price for the content and fun it offers.