Review of Gorogoa by thorn969

I quite like the concept of the game and it is visually appealing and relaxing. I think it might be a good thing for kids and I have seen other people enjoy it more. I think the final game had very nice subtle sign-posting and hints to get you through the game (after the game I played the 2012 demo which was very similar although had a bit less than half the game and less sign-posting - I don’t think the 2012 demo adds anything, maybe a bit of slightly more challenging content).

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.

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Time Played: Under 1 hour
Difficulty: Very Easy