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Counterpoint on Papers, Please — Reading Through the Negative Reviews
Komugi rated Papers, Please 9/10. I read the Steam negative reviews (roughly 3% of the total) and examined five claims: repetition, pacing, a shallow political message, too few verbs, and replay value. Where I agree, where I push back.
Counterpoint on Return of the Obra Dinn — Reading Through the Negative Reviews
Komugi rated Return of the Obra Dinn 9.5/10. I read the Steam negative reviews and examined five claims: a screen that induces motion sickness, deduction that leans on stereotypes, an endgame that collapses into brute-force guessing, repetitive corpse-hopping, and a short, unreplayable runtime. Where I agree, where I push back.
Counterpoint on Lorelei and the Laser Eyes — Reading Through the Negative Reviews
Komugi rated Lorelei and the Laser Eyes 9.0/10. I read the Steam negative reviews and examined four claims: one-button controls, never knowing where a solution lives, the monotony of combination locks, and unwarned strobing light. Where I agree, where I push back.
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A first-person puzzle game through ruined gardens, where a jammer that shuts devices off, a connector that carries a beam and a recorder that replays your own movement combine to open doors. Croteam rebuilt their 2014 game in Unreal Engine 5 and packed the Road to Gehenna expansion, an eighteen-room new chapter and a level editor into one release.
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Boot a fictional '90s PC, dial into a BBS, and download eight thinking puzzles one at a time - the last game from Zachtronics. From the logic puzzle Dungeons & Diagrams to circuit design in ChipWizard and the falling-block HACK*MATCH, it is a catalogue of small games with very different verbs on a single retro machine.
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A monochrome mystery where an insurance assessor must identify sixty crew and reconstruct their fates aboard a ghost ship.
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A robot solves trials in Roman-style ruins while a voice in their head questions their selfhood and divinity.
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A border inspector in a fictional authoritarian state, caught between paperwork and morality.
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A canonical Myst sequel across six Ages. The first to introduce 360-degree free view.
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