Meticulous and moody, Inside is a perfect realisation of the game it wants to be, whittled down to its core and then dressed up again in some of the best art and style in years. In the vein of Out of this World or Abe's Oddysee (Or Limbo, Playdead's last game), Inside is a side-scrolling puzzle/platforming game that never lets any of its ideas outstay their welcome and moves forward with a pace that maintains its downbeat atmosphere whilst staying interesting for every moment of its admittedly short playtime. The roughly movie equivalent length of the game is in no way a mark against though, if anything its far more fitting for the game than an overextended version of the same concept. I hesitate to say much about the actual game, as even though the story is quite bare, this is the sort of game whose inventiveness is best experienced for yourself.
