These yellow tiles move up and down but you can’t tell where you are in relation to them. It’s a nice touch stylistically and from a puzzle perspective. I found these mini puzzles to be a joy to discover as finding your kids paper plane brings you back to reality again and grounds you.

Every so often, you’ll end up back in your office but each time it’s been manipulated by time or physics. Indeed, some of them are quite wacky and entertaining like using a white rabbit in a wheel to chase a holographic carrot so it powers open a door. This might put a few people off but as the puzzles constantly change over the course the game visually, I wasn’t tired of it. This is because like a traditional point and click adventure, you can’t pick up the oil can until Solo has visited the cogs he needs to oil first. Working out what you can interact with is half the work in The Plane Effect but the other is working out what order you need to interact with them in. Is corporate greed taking us away from our loved ones? (Yes).Įach area has a selection of puzzles viewed isometrically and you walk, run and jump around them. What a crazy commute! Of course, this is all a visual feast for you to unpick and place subtext onto. You’ll be swimming around to avoid evil jellyfish and sharks. Everything is disconnecting him from what normal used to be and placing him in a weird industrial and creature riddled hell. You play as Solo, leaving work for the day to get home to his family but the world outside has gone mad. The gloomy atmosphere is created by the limited colours and lighting of the locations, as well as the music that accompanies the game.The muted colour palette sells the depressing feel – and your house looks like a murder scene. Graphics of The Plane Effect has a simple and unique style, which may bring to mind the graphic design of the game Inside. As we progress, we try to solve the mystery of the protagonist's place in the world and the situation in which he found himself. We explore these environments and solve puzzles, witnessing more and more strange events and avoiding dangers. We visit, among others, the city streets, where we can encounter electrocuting drones, and we also find ourselves in gloomy interiors filled with technology. Although we start the game in the office where Solo works (or rather, worked), we soon find ourselves in increasingly grim and strange locations. In The Plane Effect we observe the action from an isometric view. In addition, he finds himself caught up in a whirlwind of events that break with logic and his previous perception of time and space. He is not only unsure whether he actually has a home and a family, but also feels that he is constantly being watched. After leaving the office, the protagonist intends to return home to his waiting family, but things unexpectedly start to get complicated. In The Plane Effect, we take on the role of a character called Solo, who we accompany on his last day at work. It is a result of collaboration between Innovina Interactive and StudioKiku, and was published by PQube. The Plane Effect is a dark adventure game.

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