Red figures shattering into glass, and time that only moves when you do.

SuperHot: Mind Control Delete has a strikingly sharp profile. The art style blows everything else away: ahead of 97% of games, that clinical white and that slashing red land hard, and nobody mistakes them for anything else. The wish to rediscover it for the first time follows, ahead of 86% of titles, though that rests on few votes. Then comes the drop. Attachment collapses to the very bottom, ahead of barely 2% of games. The desert island question is hardly better. There is the paradox: a game that captivates the eye and that you would love to relive, but that you never bond with. The soundtrack also stays well behind, and both controller feel and fun settle for average.

That is the classic fate of concept games. Like many indie shooter-puzzles, it lives off one brilliant idea, here time obeying your movement. But a concept is not a companion. There is no character to love, no world to come back to.

So, who is it for? For you if you like games built like riddles, pure mechanics pushed all the way to ballet. Much less so if you want a title that stays in your heart rather than on your retina.