The Little Match Girl and His Holiness Pope Pius IX

The little match girl's mission is to retrieve a missing statue on orders from the pope himself. She is accompanied by a new character, Melix, who can jump through worlds by using mirrors. The quest takes the pair through plenty of unusual locations, in a highly linear fashion: there are very few diversions here, most rooms only have one entrance and one exit. It's like following a walking trail. Given the large, complex maps of the recent Little Match Girl 5, this linearity works fine as a palate-cleanser. The challenge involves looking out for fire or mirrors to warp to the next world, while negotiating the occasional puzzle: these feel like a step up in difficulty from recent LMG games, despite the minimal inventory and interactable objects. Actually, most of the puzzles occur on the way back, after finding your target, which is a very funny inversion of the usual "Hero's Journey" tropes.