Kairo Reviews

While somewhat interesting, Kairo couldn't hold my attention for more than a couple of hours. Exploring mostly barren, wide, swathing landscapes, it's a whole lot of walking and a whole lot of backtracking. The originality between the landscapes was nice, and well thought out, but the gameplay made me want to fall asleep. 1- Walk for 5 minutes until you find a "puzzle" 2- Try to figure out what the developer's "logic" was for solving this puzzle 3- Find a walk-through that specifically says they also have no idea what the logic was, but displays the answer 4- Input answer, hear "bong" 5- Repeat 9/10 for originality, but 2/10 for puzzle design, lack of feedback and maps that could've been much much smaller.

[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43083373/]Clever games curator review: 8/10[/url]. Half abstract puzzle game, half walking sim set in a minimalist world of brutalist architecture. The puzzles all involve figuring out what you can even do, with no explicit guidance. And then also, what the goal might be. While that might sound like a criticism, I actually enjoyed these puzzles. They encourage attention to detail and hypothesis testing, and don’t feel overly obscure. Furthermore, all of the mandatory puzzles feature a built-in hint system that goes from vague to explicit with each additional request for help. Only one of the puzzles felt truly unfair once I finally found out what I was expected to do from the hints. A good deal of the enjoyment of this game comes from exploring the mostly abstract environments and marveling at the geometric brutalism that is employed. But I think you can tell from the screenshots whether or not that’s going to be your thing. Probably because it’s an older game there are some rendering artifacts, at least on my Win11+3070m rig. Also, probably in an attempt to reduce the required specs to 2015 era graphics cards there are some lighting artifacts that cause a bit of flicker in corners. A modern remake could eliminate all these without changing the minimalist aesthetic at all, and would be a welcome change. If you’re not fussy though it’s easy to ignore. Although you can both jump and run in the game, this is in no sense a platformer and reflex demands are essentially nonexistent. I only recall a couple of puzzles where there was a tiny bit of timing element where I needed to push a button within a half second window. The game description seems to imply that they think there is a story being told by all that you see. I think that there is, in a very very light sense, but it’s not going to contribute much to your experience. This is mostly an abstract game with abstract puzzles and abstract cubey levels.