Oh I loved this! Really nice vibes, loved the art and just the environment design in general. The music/audio lent a lot to the atmosphere too.
It does a great job of leading the player around with stuff in the environment, tracks, footprints, etc. I started out with the vague notion of fully exploring each zone one at a time but there just kept being intriguing little things that caught my interest and I HAD to go check out.
I adored the experience of piecing together what I was seeing as I wandered around-- being *trusted* to piece together what I was seeing! I didn't even realize there was an end goal until more than halfway through, which I think was good, because I spent that time thinking only about exploring and seeing what there was to see.
The writing was lovely, charming and warm and sometimes funny. The ending felt sooo.... man. I feel like it's gonna stick with me. I'd been thinking, huh it's odd that we don't interact with anything, there's all this stuff that could technically serve as quest hooks but we're not able to *help,* it really feels some sort of way. And then......
Fantastic little game, will be telling my friends to play it :)