Dopamine junkies take note: pureya is distilled video game, taking all the trappings of an addictive gameplay loop - collectibles, easy-to-learn-hard-to-master skill progression, minigames, virtual pachinko - and condensing them into a tight package that doesn't demand any more than ten seconds from your attention span at a single time. The feeling one gets from playing this game is akin to scrolling through a tailored social media feed or grinding out levels in an RPG in a good way. It's repetitive, but just engaging enough that it's hard not to spend hours glued to the screen in an elated trance-like state, which is an aspect the developers were surely aware of considering the breadth of little trinkets you unlock as you play and the amount of skill and practice some of the game's achievements demand of you. Some of the minigames can feel a bit unfair at times due to the RNG, but that's probably more so due to the fact that I haven't met this game's skill ceiling yet than any design flaw inherent in them.

8.5/10 - it feels like my brain is melting