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What Lies in the Multiverse is a sublime puzzle platformer. The puzzles are engaging and the story balances comedy and drama with aplomb.

What Lies in the Multiverse is one of the most unique puzzle/platformers released in recent years. Featuring gorgeous pixel-based graphics and a charmingly self-aware sense of humor, the game constantly throws a variety of new set pieces and obstacles at you and continues to find clever ways to use its central universe swapping mechanic. Despite some unexpectedly dark undertones, the game remains mainly upbeat, telling a story that deals with loss, friendship, and life in a surprisingly mature way. What Lies in the Multiverse is well worth picking up for fans of puzzle based games.

Overall, I enjoyed What Lies in the Multiverse and feel like most people will as well. Just don’t say I didn’t warn you about some of the game’s punishing puzzles, especially the timing-based platforming ones. If you have popsicle fingers like I do, I wish you the best of luck working your way through the game, because you’re going to need it.

The biggest complaint I had for What Lies in the Multiverse is the short runtime. In spite of potential endless gameplay, the whole thing has just a few hours to go from start to finish, and there’s not anything that really compels you to keep going once it’s done. It’s a fun and interesting experience, but, aside from seeing if you can speedrun the game, you won’t find any alternate takes to get the story from beginning to end. It’s fun, but it is short, so keep that in mind before you sit down to see what’s in the Multiverse. Spoiler: it’s some good storytelling, plenty of dark humor, and not as many choices as you’d expect.

All in all the game was very fun to play and the soundtrack had me zoning out in an instant, but the menu audio was a downside and broke the originality of the game. I would have liked to have been able to traverse more than 1 alternate universe per stage but only having 2 universes to select kept the fluidity of the game clean. Although the puzzles did have challenging aspects, they felt much the same after a while. To anyone wanting to play a new platformer or something fresh with a hilarious main story and dark side stories, I recommend picking this game up!

There are eight chapters in all. Game duration is subjective, but note that to get the platinum, two trophies require that you complete them in one playthrough without missing any without starting again. You can’t level select, so you may end up using a walkthrough. While I enjoyed the game, I won’t be going back for the platinum just yet as I need a break.