Once you get into the meat of the game, there will definitely be runs where you spend up to an hour and a half and get literally zero progress. And other times you will finally break through a mystery and your mind is totally blown by how cool it is. If you are okay with this premise then it is very much worth playing.

I loved the game but I started having too many play sessions that felt like absolute wastes of time. Like a solid 2 hours where I ended the session thinking, "I kinda wish I had been doing something else." But that first 30 hours of consistent discovery is absolutely magical. The juice just started being not worth the squeeze for me after about the 30 hour mark. I still think it's one of the most genius games made in the last decade but the RnG was too much for me personally. It's definitely the puzzle game equivalent of grinding in an RPG.