The shopkeeper didn’t seem to mind my antics, though. In one I tried to carefully pour some pebbles from a beaker into a jar, but used too much force and caused a comical small hail storm of teeny tiny rocks. There are also some physics-based… scenes? They’re not really puzzles, but rather fun, clumsy interactions. They vary in simplicity from little interactive pictures, like clicking on an egg to crack it open revealing a twisted rabbit body inside, to minor brain teasers, like working out how many teeth, acorns, and spiders someone wants in their mug of tea. I wanna hang out with the creepy boardgame folk.Īs you poke your mouse into the nooks and crannies of the city, you’ll find a number of puzzles. It’s both alien and familiar, which is exactly how I would see the world if I felt lonely in a big city. The residents of this city are strange beaked beings, with gaping eye holes and exposed bones, and even though they look like they’d go feral on a sales rack in Hot Topic, they're all acting pretty casual, and doing normal people things like wearing cosy sweaters and hanging out in cute coffee shops. Like the rest of the game, it's cute and creepy: Coraline meets Alice In Wonderland meets a plague doctor’s medical textbook. Seeking out hidden disembodied body parts isn't really my vibe for a day out, but this city isn't like any I've seen before. Leaving your house, you get to poke around the surrounding shops, cafes, museums, and apartments looking for puzzles to solve, receiving organs and bones in return. In it you play as a lonely soul who decides to make a friend, but instead of joining a murder mystery book club or online chat room for sharing crotchet patterns, they decided to make their mate from scratch - Frankenstein style. I have no idea how it does it, but Birth is weirdly the most wholesome yet creepy game I've ever played. Its themes are heavy, but the game could not be more light-hearted. Sure, it’s a game about death, decay, and loneliness, but it’s told in the most gentle and genuine way possible. From the look of the screenshots, I was expecting a creepy story in the vein of Little Misfortune or Fran Bow, but instead Birth is infinitely more introspective. Solo dev Madison Karrh’s point-and-click puzzler Birth really caught me off-guard. The themes it lightly touches upon may be heavy, but it handles them with genuine care. Birth is a cute but creepy puzzle game about building a friend from body parts found in the nooks and crannies of a strange city.
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