Platform: Xbox One
Also on: PC, PS4, Switch
Publisher: ChiliDog Interactive
Developer: Gamecom Team
Medium: Digital
Players: 1
Online: No
ESRB: T
I don’t think I’ve ever played a puzzle game that was as impenetrable as A Day Without Me. I’ve certainly played puzzle games where I didn’t get the internal logic – The Witness, I’m still looking in your direction, six years after the fact – but at the very least I could appreciate that they clearly had internal logic. A Day Without Me is what happens when developers create a puzzle game, but forget to ensure any of the puzzles make sense.
Actually, that’s not entirely fair. The interesting thing about A Day Without Me is that its puzzles fail to be engaging in a wide variety of ways. Some are absurdly easy, to the point you wonder why they were even included. Some would be easy, if it weren’t for…
