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I finished this game and solved all the additional puzzles. This is not something I would say of a game that I didn't find interesting or entertaining. I don't want to recommend against this game in general. I'm leaving a negative review because I wouldn't recommend it to myself. Because it is not what I imagined when I saw the trailer. I thought the mechanics in the trailer were very promising, but I assumed the game would start building upon them. I imagined one could make some seriously reality shattering puzzles with that. But no, the game just keeps introducing new mechanics all the time, with the same narrow scope. I feel like I went to a restaurant and they just kept bringing me bread. It was really good bread, I enjoyed it. But I didn't have a meal.

this is a spoiler, but very important to consider if you have a cat: to finish the game, you are required to kill the sentient AI cat that was with you basically the whole game. --- I truly, truly despise the end of this game. It's a very cheap gut punch that is a pure railroad. I get that it is a message and all that, but it is just so cheap, especially when you don't have any choice about the end. Well, ok, you technically have two choices. You can either kill the cat, or quit the game and never finish it. I lost my cat. She had cancer. I had to put her down because she was in so much pain, but I still feel horrible about it. I chose to just quit the game. It genuinely left such a bad taste in my mouth that I actually regret playing this game. Which is a shame, because the puzzle mechanics are neat. There were better ways to write the end of this game, and the devs just chose the one that was the easiest to get emotional reactions out of. If you aren't interested in the whole "kill the cat because it's a 'meaningful' message" thing that happens at the end, just don't bother. Again, I hate that this is the recommendation I have to give, but I'm now stuck being sad about the cat I lost and can't hug anymore. F*ck this game.