Searching through the Gamivo.com bargain-bin of cheap Steam keys as I have been for the past month or so has allowed me to scoop up some great games that I likely would never even have heard of, let alone play, and "GNOG" is most definitely one of those. A bizarre Japanese game that I snapped up for just £0.20 (with a Steam price of £7.19), GNOG, is easily one of the most offbeat and interesting games I've ever had the pleasure to play.
Reminiscent of the kind of activity-toys we presumably all found great joy in tinkering with as toddlers, with their spinning dials, squeaking buttons, and flashing lights, blended with moderately more adult logic-puzzles, and set within a charmingly psychedelic musical world, there are no other games quite like GNOG. Each level consists of a tiny world constructed within a monster-head shaped lunchbox (of sorts), with your task being to solve the puzzles that dwell within each before progressing to the next. And while each level holds a certain amount of challenge designed to coerce you into exploring each miniature microcosm in full, it isn't an overly challenging puzzle game, but it is most definitely an experience, and a strangely rewarding one. 
Virtual activity toy boxes that come to life as you grab, poke, spin, pull, and play with each charming contraption, GNOG is also VR compatible. And while I don't personally yet own a VR setup I can imagine that this game would shine even more in VR. And being that a good friend of mine just messaged me to let me know he'd just purchased and had delivered an Occulus, just as soon as this quarantine-malarky is all over and done with, I shall be round his quick-sharp, armed with GNOG, to give that a test. Because not only do I imagine that this game would be a real trip in VR, if GNOG has one fault in standard mouse-contolled non-VR mode, it's that the controls can be a little "clunky". Worth enduring for such a gem of a game for sure, but hopefully something that VR would eliminate.
In addition to being available for PC via Steam, GNOG is also available to play on IOS, and Playstation. And while as mentioned at the start of this article I was lucky enough to be able to grab a copy of GNOG for next to nothing from a seller over at Gamivo (setting the search settings to "price-lowest" is a great way to uncover/discover cheap gems if you're on a budget)...
Wherever you choose to buy (should you), and on whatever platform you choose to play, GNOG is, in my opinion, an experience that every gamer should explore. And should you be suffering from a touch of the lock-down blues right now, and be in search of a little lighthearted escapism - GNOG is all but guaranteed to lift the spirits.
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