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SkedAddled rated Dark Hope: A Puzzle Adventure

SkedAddled rated a game 4 years ago
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Most original I've seen for a very long time, with devilishly inventive puzzles & storyline. I am fascinated and frustrated by the complexity of it, in equal measures.

EDIT to add: Developer worked to maintain a Discord server, hand-feeding hints when needed to those of us who were perplexed by non base-10 number systems. Always chiming in with a hint or suggestion when one of us was genuinely gobsmacked. Kudos for that. Commitment to the project was definitively displayed during that Q & A session, to be sure. Very responsive Developer/Creator.

This is not a game experience which lends itself to the standard Adventure tag, as it's far more complicated than that.  Numbers outside of Base-10 become murky, then pushing it out of bounds with symbol-and-color based numbers makes it even more tricky. You've got to be sharp with this one, there's no doubt. Reminded me immediately of RAMA, and to a lesser extent(because it's unknown, 9 - The Last Resort), due to crazy number references we don't deal with.

It's creative and devious, if nothing else.