Cocoon

Jeppe Carlsen, if he designs a game I am buying it. LIMBO, INSIDE, COCOON... This guy just understands pure design. One button and a joystick, and a truly remarkable game. A masterpiece. No instructions, no text, just environment, movement, and music. Sometimes less is more, and Jeppe you get it man. Thank you for this experience.

An absolute jewel of a game with just the right amount of challenge when it came to the puzzles. I appreciated the unique mechanic of nesting worlds within each other to level up the perplexity and how there were no instructions needed to figure out what had to happen to move forward. That's a huge plus in my book for game design. Throw in some more accolades for the gorgeous artwork, chill music, and overall atmosphere, and I'd call this a definite "recommend" among the titles I've played.

8.5/10 An excellent puzzle game, but quite short. Original, clever while being "user-friendly" for the player (simple command, simple presentation, no hidden puzzle element, etc...). While the concept of a world inside a world isn't a novel concept in video games, this is one of its most beautiful adaptation. Entering/exiting a world is both pleasing for the eyes and remarkably fluid. I think speed and rhythm can also be an important factor to appreciate the puzzle genre. Here, the character is moving fast and every interactions don't waste time. A new gameplay element is added at each new world (four world spheres in total). And to counter-balance the puzzle sections, a dose of action is added in the form of several bosses to defeat. I really liked the animations (bosses, doors, mechanisms, ...) in this game. While the graphic style is simple, the uniqueness of this alien world can be mesmerizing. The ending, as the rest of the game, is open to interpretation. It's not a bad thing, it underlines the strangeness of this alien bio-mechanical universe. But sadly the game ended too soon, I wouldn't have minded two more world spheres. But at least, the last puzzles pushed the concept quite far: a world inside a world inside a world inside a world inside itself. It was really fun ^^