If there’s one thing that the Switch has plenty of, it is puzzle games. Pretty well whatever you may be looking for, from traditional, to action-oriented, to ones that just do their own thing, the genre is more than adequately represented in the eShop. Of course, if you’re trying to release something new that you’re hoping will find success, that puts the pressure on to come up with something distinctive and hopefully a bit memorable. At a minimum I’ll at least give GOST of Time credit for doing that.

The basic hook is a bit of strange science fiction that then has a morbid streak. You play as a clone, who has been summoned by an older original version of yourself to go and help retrieve pills that they need to survive… or something like that. Suffice it to say, because of your status as a clone you’re ultimately expendable, and in order to succeed in collecting pills across a series of stages a whole lot of sacrifices will need to be made. A mixture of mishaps and outright required sacrifices will happen as you try to work your way through it all, and the hope is that aside from being challenged some degree of humor will come out of your trials.

The thing is, though it has been made up to look and play a little differently, more often than not this ultimately boils down to a classic box pushing puzzler. Sure, you won’t be shoving your typical things around since they will be clone corpses, but whether you’re placing them on a button you need to stay active or on spikes that will allow you to cross over safely, most of the same inherent level design still applies. Even as jaded as I may be with this style of puzzler, simply since they’re represented so thoroughly on the platform, and are almost always fundamentally similar, I’ll at least give the developer credit for going the extra mile to help the experience stand out with a little morbid humor.