Inspired by Beethoven's only opera, as also suggested by its title, The Fidelio Incident recounts a plane accident that ends up separating a young couple, Stanley and Leonore, in a vast snow-covered landscape littered with half-dead jellyfish and giant animal skeletons. During a desperate search for his beloved wife, Stanley's apparently lost memories gradually resurface, painting a not so rosy picture of his past...
A young couple, Victor and pregnant Alicia, move to a somewhat decrepit urban apartment building, only to find out that their elderly landlord, lonely and mysterious Mr. Morton, is spying on them and the other tenants through a sophisticated surveillance system. In an attempt to catch him red-handed, Victor stumbles upon an unimaginable discovery...
Aesthetically superb and intellectually challenging, The Room Two follows in the steps of equally gorgeous riddlefest The Room, this time with a hint of a story.
A neat, prettily designed short game without much action besides walking on a strange island, discovering half-ruined landmarks and reminiscing on your relationship with a sinister woman whose influence on your life has been disastrous. The deeper nature of the narrator's feelings for and about her are gradually revealed in voiceover as he stumbles upon each key location.
A visually gorgeous little game with a surprising and original premise, some decent puzzles and above all else, lovely design and soundtrack. It was offered at a tiny fraction of its already low price via a gift coupon from Steam, so I gave it a go.
The NADI Project is a very nice little game, with pretty graphics and a good story. A lot more sophisticated and beautifully accomplished than one might expect from a free game, which brilliantly proves that lack of financial means is not an excuse for lack of quality.
In Greek mythology, Lethe was one of the five rivers of the Underworld, offering eternal forgetfulness to those who drank from its water. Lethe, or oblivion, often viewed as an equivalent to death itself, brings relief from the burden of memory - however, one does not have to die in order to forget; and voluntarily choosing oblivion over the pain of memories could be a way to cope with grief, or even with the less weighty troubles of everyday. This is not necessarily a foolproof solution, though...
One of the first games of the genre (if not the very first, in fact) that I had the chance to play, from a demo that came with a new PC back in those heroic times.
What if all pieces on a chessboard were to be replaced with Fassbinder-esque sailors, with a dash of post-apocalyptic steampunk thrown in for good measure? An idea out of nowhere that appeared cool and fun at first, only to prove a deeply challenging and thought provoking venture.
"Moss of utopia" is a metaphor used by Odysseus Elytis in the section of his epic work The Axion Esti (What Is Worthy, 1959) dedicated to young women, whom he goes on to describe as "the deluded Pleiades" and "the Vessels of Mysteries, full to the brim yet bottomless".
