Maybe I failed the IQ test but this game being connected (I think?) to the incredible ZeroRanger does not make it's extremely difficult grid puzzles actually fun.

Almost made it to floor 200 before throwing in the towel. Maybe I would have stuck through with it were it not for the lives system and for being punished for embracing VOID

Does for Sokoban what Undertale did for JRPGs essentially. My 2023 game of the year

I'm giving up on Void Stranger. The game feels particularly disrespectful of my time, and I regret that it took me long enough to discover this that I can't return it for a refund. I enjoy opaque puzzlers (like Fez and Tunic), I like weird metatextual narrative experiments (like Undertale, Kentucky Route Zero and a jillion Interactive Fiction games I've played), and I have the tenacity to stick through a tough or even grindy experience (see Souls games and however many JRPGs I've played).

But Void Stranger is designed to waste your time, and to punish you for experimenting while giving you scant breadcrumbs so you can't really do anything but experiment. It forces you to play and replay maybe the most tedious type of game to replay (block pushing puzzler). And what crumbs of narrative I got for my trouble were not that captivating or affecting. It was the definition of a waste of time for me.