The Path

So I downloaded the indie game The Path because I read about it and decided I couldn't not have it in my life.

So you pick one of six girls of varying age and gothy dress sense and are then told to go to grandmothers house and to stay on the path.

And if you do this, you fail the game.

It's that sort of game.

Describing it is almost impossible because it all relies on atmosphere, extremely bizarre visuals and so on.

If I had to argue that games are a legitimate art form, my first example would be Portal. My second would be Braid. My third, would be The Path.

It's such a bizarre game, I've played it through twice and seems to genuinely change whenever you do. You're also left with no clear idea of what's happened or whether you were supposed to do whatever it was that you did.

And I rather like that.

If a film or a book did it, I'd find it immeasurably pretentious but there's something about performing all these actions yourself with the sense that if you were just a little bit more clever, you'd be able to work out what the hell is going on to drive away the cynic in me.

So yes. It's cheap, it's pretty, it's astonishingly confusing and it's unlike anything else you've ever played before. Get it.