A short but neat puzzle-shooter in which you clear entire levels full of enemies by shooting a single bullet. Some levels are more elegantly designed than others, but the overall adventure is easily worth the price of admission, if only for the amazingly creepy art design. Hoping for a sequel!

Exceptionally solid game. I would consider this a puzzle sniper shooter game. Really good pacing and story-line accompanying the levels. Took about 5 hours for me to beat the story mode and there is an endless mode which is rather fun.

Because it takes a certain type of gamer to really enjoy it.

You see, The Girl is on a vendetta against the cult who wronged her and her family. Each level revolves around killing sect members with only a single bullet from her gun. With her psychic abilities The Girl is able to change the trajectory of the projectile in certain ways. And so CotS is fundamentally a murderous puzzle game with a bit of lateral thinking and precision aiming.

With a few exceptions, the game is fairly easy if you go the minimum effort route to complete each level. It's also boring as hell if you play it this way. The real fun comes from performing optional tasks and chasing high scores, which basically requires to kill in style, e.g. by causing explosions to kill multiple enemies or line up consecutive headshots in a short time. This is where it gets challenging and if you're the kind of gamer who enjoys repeating levels until you get it just right and score high, then this is the game for you.

Even so, I was ready for it to be over after a while. CotS introduces new abilities and enemy types along the way. But the last handful of levels only ramp up the difficulty by increasing the enemy headcount, which gets old pretty fast. Good thing the game is not too long-winded.