I enjoyed this significantly more than their previous game "Doors". It plays quite similar to the last game where there's a puzzle box(not doors this time) in the middle that you can rotate and interact with, and you have to either find things to interact with, items to use or solve mini games to progress. The difficulty is quite easy so you're really playing for the satisfying clicks and visuals rather than the actual puzzles. This time around there's an actual story that's comprehensible, albeit not that great of one but it's still an improvement. I also really like the fact that you bring back items from the boxes, and then use those items in the "hub world" to progress to the next set of levels. And the fact that there's a hint button, and a skip puzzle option should you get stuck and no penalties for using it is just awesome! Great game, I recommend. :3

Hmm tbh I don't really know what to say about this game. I've played the first game on my phone before, so the concept and of how thing'll go I'm quite familiar with, and this game didn't really do much of anything different? It's got the nice visuals, a pretty fine tho minimum story, and the gameplay is alright, but throughout the game I'm just generally a bit bored. It didn't challenge me in anyways and I'm more going through the motions. I guess it's a fine game to play, just don't expect too much from it.

When I heard there's an open world Nikki game I was immediately intrigued, having played Love Nikki(a mobile game) before. But since it's on their own launcher I decided to hold off until the Steam release, and I gotta say this game is fucking awesome! Buttttt if you don't have much self control when it comes to gacha games stay the hell away. lol If you don't know anything about Nikki games, they're basically a dress up games where you collect really pretty clothes, and in this game the setting is it's a world where outfits grant wearer special abilities like floating or purifying monsters, and you fight "stylists" with wearing combining different outfits that have fashion scores. You're also tasked by the stylist guild with various tasks on how the world has more monsters and stuff(typical rpg stuff). This game is an open world collecti-thon game where you can catch bugs, collect plants and fish fishes. There's also quests, stories, dungeons and various mini-games and challenges to do. The main story and quests are hit and miss, sometimes it's just typical RPG stuff, but for a few of them there's actually solid writing that made me emotional quite a few times. As a dress up game the clothes are all very gorgeous ofc, and the sceneries and the views are stunning and work well as photo spots, which unsurprisingly the game actively encourages. The in-game photomode is very good, probably the best I've played with, with lots of values to tweak and filters and lighting to choose from, the only thing I'd love to have is the ability to move Nikki in photomode itself without having to exit and reposition myself. As someone that's not really that feminine irl(by choice tho), it's really nice to play something that's so unabashedly girly, and feels like it's catered to girls. I love the game for that.

Now that the positives are out of the way, lets talk about the negatives. It's a gacha game, so there will ofc be the usual banners and events and ofc dailies. Pulling stuff in this game is kinda absurd but also understandable I guess, since you have to pull for each pieces individually since they can be mixed and matched into outfits, but the banner that I started the game with both has whole ass 11 pieces for the 5 star and it's stupidly evil. Usually at the start of a new account it is the fastest to get premium currency for free, since the game will shower you with welcome gifts and events and also in this game a bunch of premium currency you can get through chests and mini-games in the map(think something like Genshin's system). But I spent all of the currencies on a single 5 star banner, wanting to pull 2 sets since I really like the last color that's unlocked with the duplicate evolve set, and I basically dumped all of them in(250 pulls) and barely got the 2 sets. That's absurd! And yes you did not hear that wrong, you unlock color sets via pulling for duplicates. There is a dye system where you can color individual parts of a single piece, but that's even more stupid because to unlock color palettes you have to spend items that can only be gained on a per week/month limit, and you have to unlock each palette separately for all the pieces of an outfit...This game is just very very tempting to spend money on, and I did fall for it I'm gonna admit which I'm not proud of. I bought the battlepass, daily login currency thing and also spent quite a bit on the current banner out of impulse purchase, did not have a good feeling after pulling even tho I got what I want. lol Just this empty feeling. I'm probably just gonna buy the battlepass/daily login after this since the devs did not really earn my trust(unlike Warframe where I kinda dumped a lot of money cuz I think the devs are worth it xD).

Now I wanna talk about the dailies. Dailies in this game are....kinda mind numbing after a bit. You have two daily quests system, the first one is kinda fine and easy to do since it's main world stuff like collecting resources or spend energy on dungeons, the second is the "multiplayer" quests, where you have to go into the multiplayer world and it's always these super boring, tedious things and infantilize activities like make a bubble appear/jump on bubble, get onto the seesaw(which no one is ever on except for quests). And in the main world resources are refreshed daily, and there will be these rare resources that only have 1 in the world so you just have to go to places and collect them like chores. You will also run into the issues of lacking money when you start upgrading outfits for the endgame content where it's the main way to get premium currency as f2p, so you have to go through dungeons or kill monsters to get money. I tried doing a full routine where you max out the money cap daily for about 3 days before I got burnt out on it and cut back. Now I only do minimum and a bit more if I have the energy, The main reasons gacha games don't last for me is the dailes, because I get bored of the chores eventually. We'll see how this one goes. lol

In conclusion, if you have trouble with gacha games and impulse purchase steer clear, but otherwise I highly recommend trying the game out with the strict idea of not spending any money and see how you like the game.

Tbh I was just curious what's the deal with these games since the dev's just been giving them away nonstop, and it is not good. lol There's a brief intro and with the outfit the girl is wearing her nipple pokes out of the dress which gave me some chuckles, then there's a bar that moves and you have to click when it's over an area or you'll get stamina penalty, and the best thing out of this game is there's a "dildo swing" where they're sitting on a seesaw(yes it's not even a swing), and the girl is being penetrated by a dildo while the guy just...watches, and plays the seesaw with her lmao. xD The moaning of the audio they put in is just on a loop and does not care about what action you're on, and when you reach the end it just says you made her cum, and the audio is of her orgasming but they can't even be bothered to do an animation for it. Overall just really funny, can be completed in 10 minutes and gave a good laugh, 1.5/10.

This game is 10/10 on the vibe and art direction department. It's gorgeous to look at and really creepy at times which is awesome, but the main gameplay/puzzle part...it's around a 6 for me. I finished the main game and the Tower DLC, but gave up on the Crypt DLC. Might've been just I wasn't in the right mindset, but this DLC just frustrated me so much with the lack of direction that I didn't want to continue. Yes that's the main critique for the puzzle part, lack of direction. Sometimes caused by me just not seeing that a wall is climbable, which not the fault of the game but still a bit annoying. But other times like the Crypt DLC is just I get to a point where I don't know where I'm supposed to go, and the main gimmick of that DLC is you have head and body separated which should be cool on paper, but in reality just punishes exploring and trying to figure out where the next step is since if you go the wrong way with the head(there's moving platforms and what not and you have to switch to head at specific locations) it's tedious and boring to get yourself and the head back to where it's supposed to be, that's the main reason why I didn't finish the DLC.

That might've been a lot of talking bad but I did genuinely enjoyed the puzzles(except the Crypt DLC). My main complaint of this game is the enemies. Most of them comes down to sneaking behind them as they walk and hide in a hiding spot, then wait for them to turn around and go past you which works ok as a tension piece at first, but gets really boring afterwards. The only encounterable enemy that's not like this is the grandma, and that's also the lack of direction thing I mentioned, since for the grandma you encounter her in a corridor and she's facing you, and just beside her there's an item you need. Naturally from all the previous learning I thought I could just sneak forward, grab the item and then sneak away since that's how I've been dealing with enemies, and it actually worked up until I grabbed the item and start to head back. Then randomly out of nowhere(at the time for me) she just jumps me and I died. "That's weird, maybe I need to grab the item and then sprint away?" I wondered, then tried to redo it, this time not even reaching the grandma even tho I'm sneaking like the last time. "What the hell do you want me to do game?" I'm getting frustrated now as I hate jumpscares and every time I die there's one, plus loud noise, after another death I looked up how to deal with this enemy and turns out, you can only move when she's looking down and not looking at you. How am I suppose to know this?! She's got a freaking cloth over her eyes I naturally thought she can't see and relies on hearing. But whatever, and following that I actually experienced the highlight of this game which is a rotating wheel puzzle and the camera rotates as well and I won't spoil it but it's freaking cool what happened alongside it, legit gave me creeps and I love it. I know not all enemy encounters can be like that but I just wish it is, it would've been so awesome. The ending tho, man why did they have to make the ending a chase sequence? It just cheapens the creepy atmosphere they've built, and in some parts it's totally counterintuitive that you have to go backwards to avoid death when there's a monster chasing you. I wish they made the finale use the camera rotate section, that would've been so sick to end on that.

Lots of complaining, but I did enjoy the game! It just didn't left a good feeling at the end. xD I will recommend the game tho, as it's really unique with the gravity switching thing, and the whole vibe of the game is phenomenal.