Faraway Proximity

Nice short puzzle game. The puzzles are different and follow a theme in each area. You have to pay attention to the books too, but there is no extensive reading. The beginning can bit a bit confusing since there is no hand holding, but on the other hand you don't have to slog through tutorials and figuring out how things work is a big part of the game.

An interesting little puzzler. Unlike most puzzle games I've played, there's not really a central set of puzzle mechanics that slowly build in difficulty - instead, the levels are more like individual mystery boxes, where figuring out each level's unique mechanics is a greater challenge than solving the problem itself. It's an enjoyable approach, and, with a [i]couple[/i] of exceptions [spoiler](what the hell do you mean "invisible" is a dark word but "cover" isn't?!)[/spoiler] the difficulty was just right for me to get neither bored nor frustrated. Despite being about books, the narrative is fairly low key and reading is kept to a relative minimum. There are books to collect and read, but they're more often puzzle clues (or actual puzzles) than lore or exposition, so don't expect to be overwhelmed by text. Or whelmed, even. There's really not much reading. I did enjoy the narrative, but it's quite pithy and hard to talk about without spoiling anything, so I'll leave it at that.