i discovered that through jurying for IGF and the jury i was on ended up nominating it that year. anyway - fully agree with what you said! it was one of my favorite games i played that whole cycle. i put it on the list of ““art games”” i made in this thread because of that.
kinda surprised more people haven’t heard of it. i honestly prefer it to something like Paratopic though i guess it’s not explicitly a horror game.