

Near the end of the level, there was another drone patrolling the walkway out. But after going for so long without any progress, I made a mistake, just in time for drone to fly in off screen to shock me to death. I didn’t want to cross the barrier at first, out of fear of losing progress. A red barrier activates in regular intervals on the road. I’ve already known going in that this is going to be some dystopian world we’re inhabiting, but what I saw next is nothing short of depressing. That’s where the third part of the demo comes in.Īfter boarding the subway, we see ourselves back on street level.

That’s all well and good, until things start dragging along. To be fair to the game, solving puzzle after puzzle did motivate me to see what happens next. What I can say for right now is that you should be checking soda machines for loose change and follow the electrical cables. I won’t be spoiling much beyond my WTF moment in the office, let’s just say that you’ll still need to perform certain actions in a particular sequence in order to progress. The next segment of the demo is a bit more forgiving. And now, I get to experience them again, as an isometric adventure game. At that moment, I remembered all the point-and-click games I’ve played before. You know, the ones where it shouldn’t make sense but… for some reason it does. It seems like this game is going to do the whole WTF method of problem solving. It actually knocked a keycard off of a light fixture. I interacted with the paper plane again… and lo and behold. But after you turn off the power, a device I assume is the heater, turns off too. Initially, picking up the air plane makes it loop back to its starting position. After searching around for a bit, I noticed that my options boiled down to picking up a paper air plane, a coat, and a fuse box. The first puzzle, fittingly enough, required us to get out of the office.

I could’ve gone without any assistance at all, but I’ll probably lose it due from the feeling of no progression. I believe it’s a fair compromise between the three. There’s also a mode that allows you to receive hints at your leisure. The game does allow you to change difficulty in the form of a mode that turns on tooltip icons that show the player what they can interact with. Not since telling the player where to go became the norm. We don’t usually get these kind of games anymore. From the obvious lack of tutorials or hand holding, I already can tell it’s one of those figure-it-out kind of games. We start taking control of him the moment he clocks out. The demo starts with a look at Solo’s everyday life – everything from his morning routine to working all throughout the night. The game promises that it’ll be a remarkable journey expertly brought to life with gorgeous visuals, crafted, and tailored by VFX experts. In this game, players take control of Solo, a lonely officer worker who’s trying to get back home in the face of impossible odds. The Plane Effect is an isometric adventure game. But getting home is the only thing pushing Solo forward. And returns home… well, he would want to return home. He starts the day having breakfast with family. Solo is, by all accounts, an everyday man.
