3/5 ★ – Bo_Po's review of Dujanah.

The setup of Dujanah is quite simple: a woman searches for her missing family in the desert and speaks with the people and creatures she meets along the way. This is an adventure game where you primarily talk to NPCs to find clues, but there's a lot of complexity beneath the surface. This Middle Eastern environment utilizes magical realism to comment about social injustices, and through imagination and memory, more cerebral explorations on consciousness, death, purpose, and love all come to life against a harrowing backdrop of war. Because it's so unorthodox, avant-garde, and offbeat, it's hard to recommend this game to a wide variety of people. Heartbreaking and hopeless, it's more arduous than traditionally challenging. It's also intentionally shrill in its soundscape, while its visuals are bizarre and enigmatic. Overall, Dujanah is important and difficult in equal parts. Its story is largely joyless, but it explores many subjects thoughtfully within its handcrafted claymation world. When it comes to experiences that nearly defy explanation, this might top them all. 6/10