Recent reviews by vaporstack

After about five hundred hours, I still can't make it through winter, but I guess this makes me a "casual" player.

Why do I keep coming back? The game is fantastic. I am an artist and a developer and I see all the flaws, but the cohesive whole is incredibly compelling. I only ever play as the base character and when I don't find glommer and a pig village within the first two days I rage quit. Maybe someone has some decent live advice for me. Anyway it's a fantastic game

This game is beyond incredible. Inscrutable at first, intractable in the middle, impossible at the end, and yet, you find yourself doing it. Somehow.

Have this game on hand to entertain young relatives. Kids still love it in 2014. The creators went on after this to create MYST and Riven, and it's a sedate and calming wacky little exploration gem. I could be wrong about this but I believe this is one of the first games to ever ship on a CD-ROM, weighing in at something like 80mb of 1-bit content, plus the soundtrack.

Side note, it's baffling that it's been removed from the OSX offerings. It is clearly a port and not a bundled emulator pack. This should have the upside of eliminating legal issues with distributing apple macintosh ROM images, with the unpleasant side effect of creating an inauthentic experience to the original game. (Source for this is based on some of the crossfades having grayscale, which obv didn't exist on 68k macs from 1990 or whenever this came out.) No idea why it isn't available aside from windows.