The Inner World

Published: 17 May 2025

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A cute and pleasant point-and-click adventure game overall - with an array of quirky characters and tries (sometimes successfully) to balance its somewhat serious, if rather cliche, plot with plenty of humour and whimsy. The puzzles themselves, and thus the game, lean relatively on the easy side for a typical point-and-click fare, although there is a fantastic in-built hint system to guide even the most unseasoned/impatient players through with oodles of curated hints. The art design on display is rather odd, when initially presented with the contrast between the dingy, if detailed subterranean world vs. the odd, stylised (if a little cute) 2d carrot-nosed pencil drawings layered on top, although I did grow to like it, definitely helped by the characterisation and VA on display which continued to match the slightly-wonky, uneven but charming and obvious passion for point-and-click games on display. In fact, “slightly-wonky, uneven but charming” quintessentially sums up this game.