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Distraint is a short, indie psychological horror game which relies heavily on its dark atmosphere and story. The plot revolves around a young man whos job is to evict people. It speaks about the guilt he goes through, and his struggle to control his greed and not let it control him. What I liked about this game the most is how much it speaks out to the real world as these events are becoming more and more common.

The art style is polished and simple. The same applies to the gameplay. It's just you moving around with the WASD keys, picking things up, and interacting with them to progress the story. It requires a bit of thinking, but is very easy and not much of a challenge. The music fits the atmosphere almost perfectly and makes the happy parts of the game much cuter and heartwarming.

The ending of the story provides a rather nice twist which, in my opinion, was the best way to end it. The game itself is only a 2 hour play, and its price is suitable for that. I do think that if it were more than 2 hours it would've gotten boring due to the repetitive gameplay.

One thing that irritated me, however, was a small bug which didn't allow you to interact with objects/people unless you approached them from a certain side. But it wasn't that big of an inconvience.

I'd give this game a 75/100 and I think that it's very much a must-buy when it's on sale (despite the fact that it already is very cheap).

At the point of writing this review I have finished ~60% of the game

Minor spoilers in the review:
This game is about a beggar that finds a mask(s) that gives him godlike powers, sounds cheesy right? Well it isn't, it has a pretty intresting bigger backstory to it that I won't spoil.
The music is pretty great and provides a nice calm atmosphere to the game, while the gameplay itself is AWSD to move and a right click to jump kind of control.
The gameplay mostly involves solving puzzles that may sometimes be completely easy and sometimes might take a couple of tries, it may not be the easiest puzzle game but it kinda is easy. The graphics are cool and whenever you switch between your beggar self and god-like self the world around you changes in a cool way.

However, I don't know if it's just me but the manuvering in the game and going through levels to unlock different powers is kinda hard, like rn I'm kinda stuck cuz I don't know where to unlock my last power. The level manuvering is kinda messed up because you don't know if you're sometimes going ahead of where you should be or if you're on track. That's probably the only negative thing I've noticed...

I would recommend you get it but it's not rly a must-buy, it's still a pretty great game and I'd give it a 7/10.
If the game is on sale (like it is the time I'm writing the review) then it would be pretty great to grab it.
Hope I helped anyone with this review...

Took me more time to figure out the symbolic meaning of the game than the time I played it. Not sure if I'm dumb, it's deep, or if it doesn't even have a symbolic meaning at all and I'm just trying to fit peices of info into one another cuz I have no clue what is going on in the game.
Still worth and I'd recommend buying if you want a nice 20-50 mins of gameplay. Pretty artistic imo