The Friday Game: Feign

Feign is astonishing and troubling in equal measures. It’s a game of simple visuals and mind-melting spatial tricks, and while you can muddle through the influences and juggle potential touchstones – Portal comes to mind, and so, at times, do the early 3D id games – it’s really nothing like any of them. Feign takes standard elements such as navigation and geometry and makes them feel disconcerting and strange, and it’s so purely a game – so purely something to play with and explore – that it quickly becomes very hard to describe.