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Free demos are rare these days and only offered by devs who are confident in their game.
This is a good appetizer, I really can't wait for the main course! :)

If you like The Game of Thrones and/or Telltale games you will love this :)

I LOVED To The Moon and defended it against the "not a game" type of people. It had, at times, awful gameplay and a lot f times I just felt like throwing away my controller and close the game but it always pulled me back in with it's story.
This however I feel has all the bad things from To The Moon and almost none of the good things.
PROS:
- the soundtrack is very nice, it may not have a For River in it but none the less is very nice
- the visuals are nice, I especially like the transitions, and there is one place when you go from home to the school in a "corridor" kinda way, which I liked. It meant to symbolize that you do not want to go, you cannot wander around in the places you previously could, you HAD to go to school. Or at least that's what I got from that scene :) and I really liked it.
CONS:
- What disappointed me the most was the story. It was just meh. I was very hyped when I found out it was going to be a story told without any words, but it just didn't grab me. It was touching at times but very predictable and it didn't leave with anything. Months after I finished To The Moon I catch my self thinking about it but this is just a story about a lonely boy who saved a bird and remained as lonely as before.
- And finally the gameplay who managed to be even worse that To The Moon. You can only move a tile at a time and I constantly went to far before turning right or left. I know it was probably meant to be played with the keyboard and not with a controller but as long as it has controller support I think it should be more optimized for it. Given that the only "gameplay" it has it's movement I expected to be more...OK. You push the left stick up and it plays an animation until it reaches the next tile, the problem is the tiles are quite large and if you want to move left or right you have to wait for the up animation to finish and then it moves you so you always end up on the tile above the one you wanted and more often than not I was kinda running in circles which is really frustrating and immersion breaking. I didn't try it with the keyboard and I don't intend to because I feel it's lazy from the part of the developer to not test and optimize it's game.
I know that it's a small indie team but movement on a grid has been around for more than 20 years and it's not rocket science.

So in conclusion I cannot recommend this game even though I was looking forward to it ever since I played To The Moon and I bought it in the first day it appeared on Steam. I feel the developer was just lazy at what makes a game be a game. I'm all for story oriented games, I love To The Moon, Gone Home, Dear Esther but those being "walking simulators" they did a very good job at the walking mechanics, this is just rubbish at it. Maybe if it was 1h long animated film I would have appreciated more, but it's not.

I had high hopes for this game and was really disappointed. I really like the surreal environment, the music and the 20's settings but the execution is awful. The controls feel clunky, the jumping does not feel right, I know she has big legs but with just a push of the button she walks half of the screen, she is allover the place. The voice acting is meh, the object interaction is bad, she can interact with an object even when she's a meter away and facing the other way (she reaches out with her hand and the door opens behind her).
You can take it during a sale if you want to play it for its aesthetics but I wouldn't recommend even that.

DAT CAVE!
11/10