Bokida - Heartfelt Reunion is an epic, capital-A art game. I've had it installed for years, and every year or so I go back and play for an hour, completely baffled as to what to do and where to go, but still somehow in awe of the vast emptiness.

Although there are some puzzles in this game, I am not sure you could ever figure them all out without a walkthrough, but the puzzles aren't really the point, I don't think. You are dropped into a huge, minimal, white world where everything you see is very far away. It takes a long time to get anywhere. You can build blocks into mid-air, erecting snake-like pathways and staircases that tower into the nothingness. Every now and then you encounter a weird symbol or tree or monolith. There are no instructions. By building blocks, pruning branches, pushing panels, eventually you may reveal a short cutscene and advance toward the end of the game. Most of the time nothing happens, but there's something compelling about trying.

The game is very relaxing and very forgiving, and that's why it works. Even though you have no idea what to do or where to go, even though you occasionally fall off one of the stairs you spent 20 minutes building, all the way back to the bottom of the level again... It kind of doesn't matter. The whole process is meditative and soothing. Nothing bad happens, there's no rush to get anywhere. There's some poetry to read, but if it told an actual story it was way too deep for me. Doesn't matter. Just wander around. Stand up on the edge of nothing and look out at nothing. It's peaceful.

This is a fantastic game to keep in your library to play while you are waiting for other games to download. If you like walking sims, exploration games and just the sense of being very small in a very big place, it's definitely worth a purchase.