Waiter, waiter! More multilayered puzzle games please!

Void Stranger is a truly special game.
But trying to describe what makes it so special, so compelling, so brilliant is difficult thing to do.
(And not even (just) for Spoiler reasons either)

My time with it has been defined by a series "Ah ha!" and "No, No way, What!?" moments that completely re contextualize what kind of game Void Stranger even is.
It is a game of Secrets; A dance of Pursuit and Discovery
It is a game that I needed to have a Notes window open while I play (though not for the typical reasons)
It is a game that drove me to try and manually decode its save files, digging deeper and deeper for the next Secret, the next Discovery (this is not something the game asks you to do. The game made me WANT to)

Void Stranger is a video game that is principally designed around "being a video game" and it asks the player to approach it like a video game. (This absolutely makes sense I swear)
Calling it "meta" would be a disservice. What it does is so much deeper than that; So much more Elegant.

If Void Stranger has a fatal flaw, it is that by presenting itself as one kind of game, some players will only treat it as that kind of game. They assume that the game really is what it is telling them and that there's nothing more to it.
Many people I've gotten to try this game have ended up just "playing it straight" and not understanding what I'm going on about.

Players need a sense of curiosity with this game, and by presenting itself merely as a Sokoban-Style Puzzle Game, many players will not look beyond that.
And that's a shame, because Void Stranger has so much to offer; So much to Discover.

Even the game's lone Achievement is more than it seems.

I cannot recommend this game, this experience enough (and I cannot wait to see what System Erasure comes up with next)

118 hours of concentrated enjoyment
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only a simple memory will remain...