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#96 Mu Cartographer (PC, 2016)


This is one of the coolest, strangest games that I have ever played. I bought this on a whim in 2016 when it was on sale for a dollar or two, and boy was it it worth it!

As the screenshot suggests, there is a lot to take in when you play. You are given a 3D landscape and tasked to maniupulate the environment to find various secrets within. To manipulate the environment, you tinker around with the various devices you see plastered across the screen. There are knobs to turn, buttons to press, sliders to, uh slide, and much more. While the general effect of each device is consistent across the game's collection of environments, you have absolutely no idea what anything will specifically do to a particular landscape until you try it, so you are essentially learning on the fly each time.

This is not a game for the impatient. Trial and error doesn't quite cut it as a description for this game. The very first landscape took me around 45 minutes to find everything. The second was emotionally deflating as the first hour I spent yielded nothing. It goes on like that for the duration of the game as there is technically a story and an end.

Due to the nature of the game, it is hard for me to rank it too high when it is common to come away feeling like you wasted your time after spending quite a bit of it to find a lone secret, but this is definitely a game every open-minded gamer should try, and I knew that I had to include it on my list.

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