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Knock-Knock
Dec. 28th, 2013 10:39 pmI've spent the last few days playing Knock-Knock, the new game from Ice-Pick Lodge (the makers of Pathologic and The Void). If anyone is interested, there is a demo on Steam here.
As for other Ice-Pick Lodge games, it's not like anything else. It's both cute and creepy. The game mechanics are about wandering a strange house, hiding and turning on lights. Knock-Knock features a protagonist living alone in the woods who is suffering from insomnia and ghost-like things. As the game progresses, you start to learn its back story which is appropriately creepy and weird. The game is addictive, which is as well as it's also fairly frustrating. It takes ages to work out what you're supposed to be doing (aka how to win). Also, once you have got a better understanding of how to play, it's still frustrating because you can have a good run and then be thwarted by a late level and effectively have to start again.
I haven't yet won the game, but hope eventually to manage (probably next month some time). I would recommend it to anyone who liked Pathologic and The Void. Although I appreciate that this is approximately zero of my f-list.
As for other Ice-Pick Lodge games, it's not like anything else. It's both cute and creepy. The game mechanics are about wandering a strange house, hiding and turning on lights. Knock-Knock features a protagonist living alone in the woods who is suffering from insomnia and ghost-like things. As the game progresses, you start to learn its back story which is appropriately creepy and weird. The game is addictive, which is as well as it's also fairly frustrating. It takes ages to work out what you're supposed to be doing (aka how to win). Also, once you have got a better understanding of how to play, it's still frustrating because you can have a good run and then be thwarted by a late level and effectively have to start again.
I haven't yet won the game, but hope eventually to manage (probably next month some time). I would recommend it to anyone who liked Pathologic and The Void. Although I appreciate that this is approximately zero of my f-list.
