The WhatsNext verdict
If you enjoy handmade surreal horror with dreamlike psychological dread and stories that treat you as part of the fiction, this delivers a memorably strange descent. Play it if you can tolerate opaque trial-and-error puzzles, surprise deaths, and scattered edgy writing.
What it does best
A handmade visual identity you recognize instantly
A dreamlike descent into psychological and cosmic dread
A surreal puppeteer story that makes the player part of the fiction
What might put you off
Opaque, trial-and-error puzzles and surprise deaths
Scattered, amateurish, and deliberately edgy writing
The setup
What you are walking into
Hello, new Puppeteer! Meet Charlotte - a puppet you will control. Meet her alien friends, maggot cat and a certain Observer. Dive deep into horrors of junk food, TV world, religion and romance novels for middle-age women. Keep your puppet safe at all times. Or don't. Have fun dying!
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