Provizora Parko

This game has a heady, dreamlike feel. In it, you explore a kind of abandoned zoo or city or something, and interact with a lot of people and things, especially birds.

I didn't see until afterwards that it is explicitly framed as a purgatory, but that makes sense. It's kind of like a text version of What Dreams May Come, but stripped of all explicit moralizing.

I encountered a lot of mysterious and compelling scenes, some making the use of delayed text in a surprisingly effective way, such as in the luggage carousel full of masks. Birds are a recurring theme.

This doesn't feel like a pleasant world to be in. Statues are ugly, people are cruel or crass, decay is everywhere. But it feels like a place to move on from, a place that shapes and refines you for good or for bad.

Very compelling game. Due to its overall grimness, not one I think I'd revisit, but one that I could recommend to others.