Moncage shows different structures, rooms, and events on every side, but if you carefully change your perspective, you can create wild connections between them.
Each of the faces of the game’s cubes show different places. You can turn the cube and find a carnival, a quiet living room, and a burning wasteland on its various sides. These items might all seem unrelated, but by adjusting your perspective, you can start events and make connections between the seemingly-separate pieces. A piece of shelving or a lamp on one face could connect to some machinery on another side if you get the angle just right. All it takes is for you to open your mind to the possible connections you could make within each image, letting the game continually surprise you with what comes together.
Turning the cube and making these connections can be a challenge, though. There’s a feeling of pleasant disorientation as you spin the cube. It feels like something is going wrong in your head when you look at the various places the cube holds. It feels impossible, which loaned the experience this sense of delightful delirium. It was like I was holding a tiny cosmos in my hand, full of past and present stories that hide secret meanings. There is a story behind all of this that you can unravel as you work away, but if you just want to lose yourself in the many places with the cube faces, you’re free to just enjoy that, too.
Moncage is a charmingly surreal experience in letting your eyes find hidden meanings and threads that bring the separate sides together. We’ve been greatly impressed as we’ve watched its growth over the years, and it’s fantastic to see that its complexities have only gotten more interesting with this full release.
Moncage is available now on itch.io and Steam.
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