Elechead (2021) & Öoo (2025)

published 2025-11-25 | updated 2025-12-07 | 7.5 hour(s) played | tags: #backlog #games

Elechead and Öoo are delightful, short, and sweet puzzle platformers by Nama Takahashi. Both have a strong core mechanic that is explored well.

They are short at ~3hrs each, but offer some rewarding hidden/extra puzzles if you want to stay in the world a bit longer.

They also follow the golden rule of puzzle games:

Don't distract from the puzzle.

Levels were focused, had a good learning curve, but consistently challenging.

My only critique of Nama Takahashi's games so far is they require reflex-solutions more than I would like. In general if you know what the solution is you should be able to execute on it, but reflexes/timing is a barrier for some players. That said the reflex requirement are really scant and often when I found myself trying a reflex solution there was a less-timing-sensitive solution I was supposed to do instead.