It is a strange, not-that-little game that can be either a soothing place you retreat into, or a mystery you're obsessively trying to solve. There's good art and music, deeply fascinating lore, some interesting storytelling and a huge potential to just sink into this world and disappear for hours on end. There's also some interface and design decisions that you need some time to adjust to and possibly read guides to learn (although the developers are constantly working to improve that aspect), and the lore and story manages to occasionally be either insufficient (there's so little we actually learn about the stories of our visitors!) or overwhelming (seriously, if you want to connect all the dots and get all the information without wikis, you *need* to keep your own notes!). Nevertheless, as evidenced by my playtime on record, I really enjoy sinking my Hours into this Book.

It is a strange, not-that-little game that can be either a soothing place you retreat into, or a mystery you're obsessively trying to solve. There's good art and music, deeply fascinating lore, some interesting storytelling and a huge potential to just sink into this world and disappear for hours on end. There's also some interface and design decisions that you need some time to adjust to and possibly read guides to learn (although the developers are constantly working to improve that aspect), and the lore and story manages to occasionally be either insufficient (there's so little we actually learn about the stories of our visitors!) or overwhelming (seriously, if you want to connect all the dots and get all the information without wikis, you *need* to keep your own notes!). Nevertheless, as evidenced by my playtime on record, I really enjoy sinking my Hours into this Book.