I really dislike adventure games with bad puzzles, even if the rest of the game is generally alright.

An interesting and off-beat comedic mystery game. It wears the Fargo and Twin Peaks inspirations on it's sleeve. A lot of the puzzles feel poorly explained, like they were just missing an extra page of text. Honestly there should just be a 'test' button before you submit your solution, but the story is interesting enough to carry it for the few hours it takes to beat it. The art was strange at first, but I actually grew to love it. Great voice acting all around, in my opinion.

Overall I would rate the game a 4/5 (I would recommend waiting to get it on sale). I absolutely loved the art style and the voice acting, it really got that weird upstate town in the middle of nowhere kinda feel. I only take a point off because I feel like some of the puzzles weren't explained the best. Sometimes the directions seemed super clear but then other times I had to reread it several times and still didn't quite understand. (I'm talking about you stupid fish puzzle). The beginning of the game did feel a bit like a movie that was very periodically getting interrupted by a 5 second puzzle at times but it got better.

I would definitely recommend having a piece of paper and a pencil handy for some of the puzzles since they can get a bit complex and hard to visualize at times. If you are someone who enjoys puzzles such as the ones TedED puts out, then I would highly recommend this game to you.

Not too long so you can play it in one session, but not so short it doesn't feel like its worth it. I'm hoping that the second game ties up some of the loose ends that this one seemingly left.