Broken Reality Slice ads, collect likes, surf the weird web

NATEM runs everything digital in this future, and its internet is a place with geography: a cruise ship called the Love Cruise, the casino city of GeoCity, and stranger corners beyond them. You move through it in first person, no jumping, no running, just walking and looking, which suits the pace. The whole thing is built from low-poly shapes, garish pink and cyan palettes and old UI flourishes, so every level feels like a website you could get lost in. One minute you are helping a character with a quest, the next you are photographing a scene from the right angle for bonus likes. It is dreamlike, often very pretty, and it gets more beautiful the deeper you go.

Progress runs on likes, and there are plenty of ways to earn them: like posters, win arcade-style mini games, complete quirky quests for the cast of characters, or grab them off the floor, because likes here are physical objects. Likes upgrade your account and open access to new levels. Along the way you pick up tools: a camera for finding secrets, a bookmarker that teleports you across the map, and a katana for cutting pop-up ads into pieces, which is exactly as satisfying as it sounds. The puzzles lean on using these items well, and the challenge sits in the sweet spot where thinking pays off without frustration. Nothing is violent; the ads are the only casualties.