Gorogoa is still one of the best puzzle games I’ve ever played

polygon.com:

Dear Polygon,

I’m many years into a period of chronic illness, which threw my life off the rails right in the prime of my young adulthood. I’ve got good at managing it, but I can’t deny how truly isolating, and quite honestly boring it’s forced my life to become.

But no matter how many years go by, and how many plans and hobbies I’m forced to drop, it never becomes any less of a treat to live in a video game narrative for a little while. When I’m too out-of-it to engage with some Hardcore Gamer Gameplay, I love having the door open for a short little indie game that is devoted to using the medium in interesting ways to tell its own unique story (many of which I’ve discovered through Polygon, I suspect lots of you share my taste on this one).

I do worry how many incredible video game stories out there get overlooked, that find innovative ways to get across beautiful moving narratives and yet fly under the radar for all but a dedicated few. If anyone knows about this kind of hidden gem, it’s Polygon Dot Com.

So I suppose I just want to know what games left big narrative impacts on you! What games provided characters and plotlines that left you enormously invested in a whole other world, even if only for a short while. It’s nice to live in someone else’s story when there isn’t much going on in your own anymore.

Thanks Polygon, and as we all love to say, keep on gamin’ in the free world.

—Sam

Hi, Sam!

Thank you for sharing your story with us. Chronic illness is hard — really, really hard. There’s been a period of time in my life where I’ve been very sick, and stuck at home for six months to a year. It’s so isolating, and I can absolutely relate to the ways video games help me feel more connected.

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