Artsy, Experimental and an Interesting Curiosity
Thirty Flights of Loving and its prequel Gravity Sock (packaged with the TFoL) are weird games. They both seem like student art projects or products concocted in a game jam. The graphics are very basic. There is no combat. And the levels are very very linear. They are walking simulators in the strictest sense and the story is fed to you through environmental details. They are not traditional video games and that's the point.
Gravity Sock is a spy thriller, where you play a spy, completing objectives assigned to you in a briefcase.
Thirty Flights of Loving is a crime story, where you and two close friends plan to commit a robbery.
TFoL is an excellent showcase of maximizing every minute of the game time to serve a point. GS is not as successful as its' successor as it tries to weave in some platforming puzzles that didn't need to exist.
Both games can easily be completed in under a half an hour. And they both tell two interesting stories in less time it takes for some games to even finish pouting their epic story filled with lavish, realistic cut scenes. Turns out it was pretty refreshing to play something that told a competent story and valued my time.
