Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: Painting, typography, and cute animals in space – we are a broad church.
If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, here’s our archive.
Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery is best played in one sitting; partly because it’s roughly an hour long and, to stop, would ruin the flow. It moves at a relaxed pace from puzzle to puzzle which succeed in being both simple and engaging. Some rely on your memory, while others recreate the art of painting as you slowly craft a masterpiece.
(I will also openly admit to flat envy over the perfect creative studio our painter lives in.)
The game gradually creates a sweet tone until it unveils the silent tension it’s been constructing through acts of repetition. It’s here where you start to question exactly what kind of game you’re playing, before the threads Behind The Frame have been spinning knot themselves together. While you might have already figured out the game’s secret, the beautiful, expectedly animated, sequence is a joy to experience.