How do I post a "Neutral" review on steam?? - wait, this isn't google

More of an "interactive visual" than a "game" (the gameplay is very minimalist) that tells a very ambiguous story.

Either the game is trying to illicit emotion out of the player (something I never personally managed with media in general for the most part) or the people who recommended it have a much lower threshold for what ticks those boxes than I (nothing wrong with that - art is subjective etc).

It's saving grace was that it was short enough to wrap up in one sitting, but I wouldn't say it's worth going out of your way for, but your mileage will likely vary as one persons "pretentious artsy indie game that just wants to dance around and imply the story instead of telling it" is another mans masterpiece.

It wasn't until I finished it and talked through the story points with friends who enjoyed it, that I realised I'd missed a heap of context/implication - my advice would be to focus on the dialogue - it's easy to accidentally click through a lot of it and miss contextual cues that help you piece it together - I wouldn't say I blitzed through it by any means, but it was obvious I missed a few lines/didn't hold any importance in some of them that kinda "make" the story what it is for people who like it - there's a lot of vague implication that you're left to piece together and make yourself and I simply didn't make the necessary connections to "get it". My score would likely be higher if the dialogue was voice acted and unskippable as I'm sure there would be inflection in the delivery that would have helped.

Also, on further review of the steam page - ignore pretty much everything it says as while it's technically not wrong, it paints a VASTLY different picture of what the game/story is like

How do I post a "Neutral" review on steam?? - wait, this isn't google More of an "interactive visual" than a "game" (the gameplay is very minimalist) that tells a very ambiguous story. Either the game is trying to illicit emotion out of the player (something I never personally managed with media in general for the most part) or the people who recommended it have a much lower threshold for what ticks those boxes than I (nothing wrong with that - art is subjective etc). It's saving grace was that it was short enough to wrap up in one sitting, but I wouldn't say it's worth going out of your way for, but your mileage will likely vary as one persons "pretentious artsy indie game that just wants to dance around and imply the story instead of telling it" is another mans masterpiece. It wasn't until I finished it and talked through the story points with friends who enjoyed it, that I realised I'd missed a heap of context/implication - my advice would be to focus on the dialogue - it's easy to accidentally click through a lot of it and miss contextual cues that help you piece it together - I wouldn't say I blitzed through it by any means, but it was obvious I missed a few lines/didn't hold any importance in some of them that kinda "make" the story what it is for people who like it - there's a lot of vague implication that you're left to piece together and make yourself and I simply didn't make the necessary connections to "get it". My score would likely be higher if the dialogue was voice acted and unskippable as I'm sure there would be inflection in the delivery that would have helped. Also, on further review of the steam page - ignore pretty much everything it says as while it's technically not wrong, it paints a VASTLY different picture of what the game/story is like