Catherine

[Grindspine]

Anyone else played this?  I remember seeing it back on the PS3 and 360, noticed it on a Steam sale so got it.  It is actually a pretty decent puzzle game interspersed with a story and time talking to patrons in a bar between the nightmare puzzle stages...  It does have some mature topics about relationships, but seems fairly PG-13 to me.

I am currently to the last stage after about 9 hours of play time.  It is a different type of puzzle game than say, Portal, but it similarly makes you think of three dimensional space.  Some of the topics on relationships are deeper than first listen as well. 

Overall, I'd recommend!

[targetrasp]

I've looked at picking this game up a dozen times then felt pervy and prayed for forgiveness!

Seriously though, if the puzzle aspect is as deep as you say I'll likely give it a playthrough.

[Grindspine]

I had the same thought process.  There is a huge part of the story line that deals with a guy cheating on his girlfriend.  That part of the story is kinda like a rail shooter, you do not get to directly make those decisions; the player is along for the ride on that part of the story.  However, discussions that you have with people, questions you do answer, and interactions in the Stray Sheep bar do make you think about relationships.  Just seeing how the main character, Vincent, interacts with his established relationship with Katherine vs the girl he unwittingly started a relationship with, Catherine, gives some serious consideration to how relationships change over time.

There was some actual thought put into both the puzzle game phase of the game and the relationship side of the story.  There is a part where the Catherine character tries to send naughty pictures to the protagonist; those are borderline NSFW, but I would not be playing video games at work anyway.

[Grindspine]

 

After being told that there are seven stages, you hit an eighth and are told it is the final nightmare.

You then get thrown into a ninth night of six stages in a row, the last two of which have randomly changing (living) blocks, random brimstone falling from the sky, and a boss chasing you.

The difficulty jumps dramatically even on the easy game play setting.  The amount of luck needed for the sixth part of the ninth nightmare is ridiculous.  It took me over 30 retries to finally beat the game, only to get the "bad" ending.

All fun is lost out of the game after the 7th stage.  I really cannot recommend the game after the amount of rage quit built up over the last two parts of the final stage.