Fair point. Hmmm…. The Atari version of pac man.

That thing was just… bad.

I can’t recall a lot of just plain bad games except the ones cited. But looking forward to anybody else coming up with something they maybe jogs my memory

Zelda wand of Gamelon ET for the Atari

You’re basically dropped into a huge set of mysteries.

You get to explore, at your leisure, anything you want.

There’s places and dialog and written records that contain clues and references to different threads of those interconnected mysteries.

As you play, read, explore you uncover more and more and what happened, is happening, and will happen start to make sense and you build a picture in your mind of what’s going on.

There’s no unlocks or progress except for these moments of discovery. And as you learn and discover more you can get access to new places to dig into the mystery because you have acquired the knowledge that lets you do it.

I got the game because of a video review that struck me with how little it gave away. Because it bent over backwards to avoid spoiling it.

I played it for 5 minutes and thought, standard tutorial level design and the models could use some work.

10 minutes after that I was on my way with a code and just headed to explore. A few minutes later something crazy happened, and I was struck thinking “what just happened”

A few hours later I was pulling on a thread of exploration when I saw some celestial event that reminded me about another thread of another mystery and made me go “ohhhh, so I need to go here and check this out at a certain point in the orbit”

One crazy weekend was over and I had felt wonder, sadness, frustration, melancholy and hope in such amazingly timed waves of intrigue and discovery that I wish I could do it again.

It may not be to everyone’s taste and I get looking at the initial style and thinking there’s cut corners but there aren’t.

I will spoil one technical detail. The entire solar system is emulated in real time. Things and events are inter connected in ways that I’m personally shocked they ever got the game to run on the Nintendo Switch. It’s a technical masterpiece even if it doesn’t look it at first glance.

I saw the question, came to post this only to see yours.

It truly is a unique experience. I jokingly say to my family that if I ever have some kind of temporary amnesia prompt me to play that.

I also occasionally watch let’s plays of streamers to vicariously experience some of those moments of realization as the story unfolds.

Seriously play it if you haven’t and avoid streams, videos, etc like the plague. The game progression is 100% knowledge based. So spoilers really do take away part of the experience.

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This sounds like something Alec of Technology Connection would ask.

Hmmm…

No, but good guess

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