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Do you like puzzle games? Are you ok with playing a short game?If your answer is yes to these questions, you'll like Calendula. It's a unique piece of art.. Deliberately glitchy, unstable and constantly fracturing, Calendula is hot on the heels of the recent Pony Island for the most meta game of 2016.We must manipulate a broken menu screen to be able to play the horror game 'Calendula'. But the game resists being played, actively evading the player with its constantly shifting commands.It takes the broken menu puzzles of Pony Island and makes a complete experience of them. Thanks to the sheer originality of its execution, it's effective and engaging, and Calendula conjures up plenty of opressive tension through its disconcerting atmosphere.Between puzzle sloving there are surreal first person vignettes which form the actual "game" of Calendula that we're trying to play. These sections add to the disturbing vibe rather than give any real exposition or narrative, until later when we're beat over the head with the obvious symbolism. Ultimately it's up to the player to decide "what it all means", and I concluded with a story that works for me, although that narrative doesn't connect with the mechanics of the game in any meaningful way. They feel like seperate experiences. Still, it's a sharp and mysterious atmospheric-puzzler, even if it's intended mind-\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665 doesn't quite come together with its mechanics in unity.. CALENDULAGame Difficulty: 4\/10Story Completion: 1-2 hoursStory Rating: 3\/10Gameplay Rating: 4\/10Soundtrack: 4\/10Achievement Difficulty: 2\/10 (Multiple playthroughs required, one glitched achievement which also prevents a second non glitched achievement)Estimated 100% Time: 2-3 hours (if you somehow bypass a glitched puzzle)Reccomended Play Experience: Play through onceOverall Rating: 4\/10Overall Impression: A short and interesting puzzle game that messes with your mind more than you like. An amazing game if you really love the colour red.GOOD:- Puzzles are challenging and unique- Doesn't overstay it's welcome- Has an undertone of a story- Nice soundtrackBAD:- Game is almost exclusively red, black and grey- The Eye Room glitch is game breaking and can lock you out of achievements- A few puzzles are relatively tedious (not challenging, just tedious)- The start logo appears EVERY TIME you solve a puzzle and stays for around 10-15 seconds- The attempt at the story is weak and leaves TOO much to the imagination- The few walking sections are slow and just seem totally out of placeCALENDULA is a puzzle game that tries it's hardest to stop you from playing. You will be frustrated, sick of seeing red but by the time you've finished the game you will be proud of the madness you had to go through.90% of the game actually takes place in the main menu of the game. When trying to start a new game or load a game, CALENDULA says you know what? You need to put some work in to actually play this game. The first few puzzles are very simple (such as your screen and mouse being inverted so you have to turn off the mirror settings in the options menu) but the later puzzles can become quite daunting. For those who are still confused, this is how most of the game works out. You try to load a game, it asks you for a password, you then solve a puzzle on the main menu to get said password and load the game. You do a brief walking section and are kicked back out to the main menu and have to do a new puzzle for a new password.While not every puzzle requires a passowrd most do and alot of the puzzles are genuinely fun and require some brainpower to figure.One major problem of the game is actually a bug. One of the rooms you go into after entering a password requires you to walk forward. Unfortunately this room bugs out and won't actually register that you've walked forward making the room unable to be completed. You have to quit and restart the game and attempt the room again (and possibly a 3rd time....or a 4th and beyond) until the room completes successfully. The developers said that they fixed this glitch but they did not and it doesn't look like they ever will.The achievements are relatively simple and easy to get, but the aforementioned glitch might possibly lock you out of 2 of the 8 achievements (like it has for me).If you like puzzle games and don't want to spend 20 hours solving them Calendula is a great game.. Really interesting concept but just a little too short. Try and pick it up in a sale.. It feels odd to recommend a game that barely lasted me 40 minutes, but I'm pretty down with the concept and enjoyed the short playthrough.With plenty of little tricks and puzzles to work through and a creepy feeling behind it all, Calendula takes the meta-game concept and runs with it for a little while. It doesn't step over into outright horror despite seeming like it's going that way, but a sense of mystery runs through it all. You get the feeling that you're about to unearth some terrible secret at any moment. Unfortunately, it doesn't really come to a satisfying conclusion, but the journey is fun.Some of the puzzles were clever and some were simple and one was frustrating. I'm not really sure what the "twist" was really supposed to mean, aside from the obvious, and I don't think it's really worth digging in to understand it all. Just take it for what it gives you.I got this for a big discount, and given the completion time, that's probably for the best. It's something to keep your eye on if you like the concept (and if you enjoyed similar game-within-a-game Pony Island) but don't expect it to keep you busy for more than one session.. How do I even begin to describe this game? WAIT! Did I just called CALENDULA a game!?!?! I........... I don't know what to say about this 'game'.... or experience so say..... This experience was really strange, bizzare, odd, weird, creepy, scary, and enigmatic but in a really good other worldly way.....CALENDULA is an Indie Horror Puzzle 'Game' (coughs) Experience where you don't play the game, the game plays you. You must solve the bizzare puzzles in the main menu in order to 'succeed' in 'playing the game' which will slowly reveal what is about to happen.. If you're a gamer (haha excuss my pun due to my Steam name and no I'm not Sans..... XD) that doesn't like puzzle\/horror games then I don't think this game is for you but if you enjoy puzzle\/horror games, then I highly recommend you guys or ladies to play this 'game' or other worldly experience! :D. If you've played Pony Island then you have played a much better version of this game. Calendula has the same basic premise as Pony Island: Try and play a broken game that doesn't want to be played. The "game" plays out like an indie short film with bizarre imagery and a pretensious "plot". The entire game consists of about 15 very simple puzzles mixed in with some nonsensicle cut scenes of raw meat in a sink. If Calendula's aim is to be creepy, it failed. If Calendula's aim was to deep, it failed. Is it a digital representation of reincarnation?A metaphor for the creative process of making a game?I don't know.But oh well, It is not my fault.. If you don't know anything about Calendula, I envy you. Just play it before someone spoils it.This is one of those game where you don't see the 4th wall at all.Visually it has its own personality, and it's really beautiful in a disturbing way. But the big point about Calendula is its impressive atmosphere, even better if you play through in one sitting, with lights off and a good pair of headphones.It's a short experience that will stay in your head for a couple of days.If you liked The Stanley Parable, Pony Island or Dr. Langeskov, you'll like Calendula.. I never thought I would be saying I actually enjoyed a game in which I literally cannot get past the main menu, but I guess anything is possible now. I wasn't sure what to expect when I bought this game, and Calendula surprised me in more than one way. It's hard to say much without spoiling the overall experience, which I would hate to do. It's really a game you have to try for yourself, and play along with wholeheartedly in order to truly enjoy the ride. I've never played a game quite like it, and find it impossible to compare it to anything else. Sometimes, there are more to games than reaching clear goals or defeating obvious enemies. 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