Games You Played Today VI (III in the west)

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So I saw a new game today named The Forest Cathedral that appeared to be a wandering around puzzle game, except instead of puzzles you play little platformer stages on various screens set up around the place.

You can also carry one around that converts the environment into… stuff(?) on a screen you carry around.

That seems like a neat little basis for an exploratory first person experience thing, and then I read the story bit.

Playing as scientist Rachel Carson, players will slowly uncover the effects of DDT by using advanced environmental technology to solve 2D/3D connected puzzles in this dramatic reimagining of Silent Spring.

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The game tells the reimagined story of the attempted silence of Rachel Carson leading up to her discoveries on the harmful pesticide known as DDT.

Slowly uncover the effects of DDT in this dramatic reimagining of the story of Rachel Carson. Use advanced environmental technology to solve 2D/3D connected puzzles.

That is enough of a random twist to get a game mentioned here!

The Forest Cathedral on Steam

I just finished this game. It’s less than an hour long. (Or should be, but the 2D parts are poorly programmed. Near the end I just switched off the spikes rather than continue to fight with the controls.)

The game is stranger than I expected, sometimes going for absurd or morbid humor while relating the story. I thought it might be similar to The Pedestrian but it’s more of a walking simulator than a puzzle game, despite the 2D platformer sections.