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It is similar to Void Stranger and Animal Well (the press doc explicitly calls those out), But it reminded me very much of an older euro-game design tradition, the 80s/90s flick-screen puzzle platformer worlds like Jet Set Willy and the Dizzy series. Or Below the Root, tho that's American.

So EMUUROM reminded me of the critically underappreciated Wuppo, which has a similar structure. It also looks pretty lighthearted, but has an incredible internal consistency that you slowly unravel as you explore the world. store.steampowered.com/app/400630/W...

I've been struggling with this one. People with judgement that I trust seem to unanimously like it, and yet I've bounced off from it three times already and really can't put a finger on what it is exactly that I'm not liking, to the point it's becoming recurrent food for thought for me:

is it the navigation gamefeel? Is it the gap between surface level interaction and the first level of secrets too big/obscure? are surface level interactions not that interesting for me? why? I'm pretty sure your posts will make me give it anothery try. Maybe this one!

It's always good to interrogate your likes and dislikes! I don't imagine it's the meta-structure of secrets, since that's a further-in sort of thing (side note: I do wish the game's later half, "post-game" stuff was meaningfully woven in more into the first run through, or at least glimpsed).