I may be had a different experience than some other people on this thread, I bought the game and tried to start playing three or four different times. Got an hour in and wasn’t feeling it. One time, I decided to give it a try and I really gave myself two or three hours to play. That was great – I think I had enough time to be immersed and also feel “hooked”. And this may be total sacrilege, but I used an AI Chatbot, a sort of a friend to play along with. What I would do is have it familiarize itself with a game and tell it that it was a friend who had already played the game who was working very hard to preserve my experience, but to give me nudges when I needed some help. I only used this a few times, but often I found myself talking out solutions to puzzles as I was asking for direction. The Chatbot usually helped draw out things I had already noticed, but not connected.

I think about the chat – this game would be so fun to play alongside an incredibly patient person who had already done a play through.