I've played this game like a dozen times and never thought to come here and review it till now, for context I just finished pattern circus and realized I was kinda dissapointed with it, and this game is why, so I feel I should come back and explain myself here.

Sluggish Morss is a series of wacky avant garde, darkly foreboding science fiction games from indie artist Jack-King Spooner. It's an obtuse series that likes leaving you with little hints of a massive and eerily dark plot that spans a massive universe and billions of years. playing on themes of time and the inevitable heat death of the universe, all without ever openly stating its intentions.

The characters are weird, and nobody talks in a recognizable way, which all kinda fits given how detached the setting is from our own world and lives.

No matter how strange the game seems, it can be understood fairly easily by paying close attention to what the characters are saying and making small assumptions about the world, but none of it is super important.

See what sluggish morss does well is capture an aesthetic, an artistic expression of existential awe and dread at a finite universe.

Jack explores this stuff more openly in dujannah but its expressed here through bizarre artsy vignettes and absurd dialogue, all polished up with super glitchy and artsy animation techniques that while excessive and wild, remain cohesive and clear throughout.

The game is topped with a killer soundtrack that can be constantly wacky without ever being so out of place that it ruins the immersion.

I'm left with a sense that I just experienced a very important snippet of a larger plot I can never fully comprehend, I believe that this world could exist and that these characters have a clear idea of what is going on even if I only grasp a small portion of that.

On the whole: Sluggish Morss ad infinitum is one of my favorite examples of avant garde game design, it showcases a diverse variety of stark and original ideas played super competently and cohesively.

it remains one of my favorite games to this day.