"Purrgatory"

Ahaha haha cuz cats dont go to heaven haha- Anyway, I played a point and click visual novel puzzle kinda game today and felt like talking about it because it was super cool and underrated! I'll have a spoiler free paragraph for those that wanna play it, and a spoiler paragraph for people like me that spoil everything for themselves (or if anyone out there reading this has played the game.) Also completely irrelevant but I forgot to give my previous entry a layout and now I'm unreasonably upset about it -_-

Ahem anyway, 

Purrgatory is a game where you go to, you guessed it, purgatory. Except in this game's version of purgatory everything is cat themed or somewhat made for cats, and there are only 7 other people there.  The writing feels real and charming, and I found myself really attached to these characters that I only got to know in the hour or two that I'd been playing the game.

You click around to explore and meet the other characters. 

Kyungsoon, a girl that sits and eats stuff, 

Oliver, a nerdy librarian, 

Numa, a social trainwreck gardener, 

Elijah, a wise poet, 

Sean, a flirty musician, 

Tori, a girl trying to escape,

and Natalie, a lazy but kind artist

also there's a lot of queer rep and it's super well written!! I rate it 8/10 because it was super cool but a bit confusing to navigate at times. Also i played it on itch.io if anyone's wondering.

Okay now I'm gonna get into spoilers so if you wanna play the game go do that now!

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Okay I think all the people that dont wanna be spoiled are gone by now, right?

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Yeah, for sure. 

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So in order to get the true ending (which is what I got) you befriend all the characters to "save" them and then call lucifur (hahahaha get it because he's a cat?) Lucifur interviews people because purrgatory is over capacity and he needs someone to leave, and after a long argument he ends up allowing everyone to go to heaven (note that this is only in the good ending, which I achieved) The ending was pretty heartwarming and I felt accomplished in completing everything, but it made me start to wonder about the afterlife. Funny how a badly drawn point and click game can do that. After we die how are we just supposed to accept eternity? Even if I was in literal heaven I feel like I would get bored. I don't wanna be reincarnated either of course, but sometimes I feel like the afterlife as a concept just doesn't seem that great. Maybe it's just me. Oh gosh I'm getting deep and this is supposed to be a review. COUGH anyway the heaven sequence is really beautifully drawn compared to the rest of the game, which is mostly black and white. I kinda wish we could get a sequel or some more updates of the characters in heaven, but I feel that way about every game I play. 

If you managed to read my pathetic excuse of a "review", thanks. I hope you have a lovely day and lemme know if you want me to recommend and/or talk about more indie games, I play a lot of them haha :P