The Katydids Incident

The Katydids Incident is hard to pin down beyond the fact that it sits in the game space, and that alone already makes the likely audience fairly narrow. By our assessment, it feels like the sort of title that depends on its own premise and on whether the player is willing to discover the rules from the first minutes instead of being guided by a familiar genre template. That can be a virtue in small, unusual games, but it also means there is no broad, obvious hook to lean on here. The upside of that kind of project is usually a direct, compact experience; the downside is that it can leave people outside its intended niche with very little to latch onto. It is the kind of game you notice for its strangeness rather than for polish or scale, and that also means it is not an easy recommendation for someone wanting a safe, standard pick.