Review: ISLANDS: Non-Places (2016)

Original post: https://misthold.dreamwidth.org/3425.html

ISLANDS: Non-Places (2016) is an “artscape” game by artist Carl Burton. I played the Mac OS version.

Not so much as game as a collection of surreal, semi-interactive art pieces. The “game” part is just finding things that blink, clicking on them, and then watching the scene change into something else. It's meditative and very pretty, with calming background music. Watching a bus stop turn into an egg incubator (for instance) was fascinating; I liked watching the mundane world turn into something fantastic.

However, I would NOT have bought it for full price because it's not enough game content to make it “worth” the purchase. At only about 45 minutes max, and with minimal interactive elements…idk. I'm glad I got it as part of a bundle. I do appreciate its experimental nature, though!

Price: $4.99