DeVuego LATAM

While short enough to mostly complete in two-and-a-half hours, Storyteller is a fun puzzle game with unique ideas I want to see expanded upon in a sequel or have other games put their own spin on the narrative puzzle formula.

Overall, it’s a small game making big-boy decisions without doing its big-boy due diligence

Fobia isn’t bad, but I found it rudimentary to the point of being mostly boring. While it has some fun puzzles and a few good scares, the majority of my ten-and-a-half-hour playthrough was dull. Every new story reveal failed to pay off in an interesting way, monster encounters felt basic, and wandering through the environment was disorienting. But if you’re interested in a new game trying to recapture the bizarre logic, unpredictability, and difficulty of old survival horror games, it might scratch that itch.

If you like universe-swapping puzzles, don’t mind the slow platforming, and are okay with a very on-the-nose story, there’s a lot to love in this game. But if you detest block puzzles, dislike walking slowly across a room, or get irritated with characters repeating the same pattern of conversation, I wouldn’t recommend this one.