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Review
Following in the footsteps of games like Counterfeit Monkey and Retool Looter comes an escape-the-room game featuring several linguistic gimmicks.
After a long job hunt, you have finally found a position as a semantagician's assistant, but you have no idea what you should be doing. You are stuck in a dressing room with several machines that each have a specific function. You need to figure out how to use them to get out and pass the test.
While the premise may seem familiar to this community, this puzzle parser game feels a bit different to me. Even in one-room games like Oppositely Opal, there are many objects to interact with and try out. However, this game only provides a bit more than the bare minimum necessary to solve the puzzle. The main challenge is discovering the rules behind each machine.
This led me to think of so-called rule discovery games like The Witness, now popular in logic puzzle game communities like Thinky Games. As it turns out, the developer created this game for a Thinky Game Jam!
I started appreciating the game a lot once I realized how minimalist it actually was. The puzzle design allows for some really satisfying eureka moments, even when I started using the walkthrough for the later parts. If you enjoy word puzzles, this is a great game for a good brain workout.
