This game is sooooo under appreciated.

It's hard to express the journey of this game because it's a real challenge: testing your ability to comprehend abstract concepts and your ability hold multiple disparate things in your head. It was mind boggling, but in the best possible way.

The closest game I can think of as an analog is Outer Wilds because of the puzzle, the way it's solved, and the way everything fits together. It may not have the characters or breadth, but you can really feel the amount of care and thought that went into this single-map experience.

The concept is charming and finds a way to be both familiar and utterly perplexing. The developer somehow found the perfect amount of progress to bake into each step in the process of figuring out the puzzle, making each step feel like a revelation, and none feeling like a tedious errand.

The atmosphere is both inviting (colorful, friendly), but also mysterious, and in some cases foreboding.

This game took a while to win me over, and I was this close to quitting, but I am very very glad I didn't because the satisfaction of completing it was INTENSE! If you're playing this and are struggling with the difficulty. You're not alone! But keep at it. Try everything you can think of!

It is an excellent example of the expression of a single-dev experience.