Its setting is a blessing.

you oughta bake a cake but there are no ingredients, and on and on.

Eventually, though, it clicks.

A Space for the Unbound review - Atma and Reya sit next to each other in the movie theatre and awkwardly touch hands

This game is messy, and it gets no less messy as you dive deeper and deeper into it.

The mess is the point.

This is not tidy subject matter, and there are no tidy answers.

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But step back to view it as a whole, and it’s magic.

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A Space for the Unbound review - in a dreamlike space you try solve a puzzle by looking at movie posters

A Space for the Unbound review - in a red journal showing your inventory, an item called Rooster In Bag is displayed with a quip about the ‘incredible vibes’ coming from it

A Space for the Unbound review - Atma chats with a strange shop owner giving him a lifetime supply of cooking oil

A Space for the Unbound review - Atma shouts objection in a dream-like courtroom full of geese

A Space for the Unbound review - Atma strokes his chin trying to figure out how to get a cat out of a tree

A Space for the Unbound review - Atma stands in front of a wall covered in Indonesian graffiti

A Space for the Unbound review - silhouetted dramatically against a pale blue background showing a crack of lighting, Atma reaches out with a stick to try to save a friend from drowning

A Space for the Unbound review - inside an old arcade, you fight a group of thugs Street Fighter style

A Space for the Unbound review - in a Street Fighter-style minigame with bright orange-yellow background, an old sensei stands victorious over a KO’d foe