Early in co-op game A Way Out, my partner and I found ourselves starving in a forest after a taxing escape from the police. While a burger was definitely out of the question, we came across a riverside camp with fish rushing in its shallow waters. To catch our lunch, one of us needed to splash the water and funnel the fish into a tight spot, while the other used a wooden spear to finish the job. It was an archaic process that made for a thoughtful moment in a game occupied by chaos, and put into focus the clarifying themes of teamwork and survival that define Hazelight’s prison-breaking adventure game.

In A Way Out, you and a partner play as the criminals Leo Carusa and Vincent Moretti as they seek to escape their incarceration after being led astray by the same rotten apple. Landing somewhere between a playable film and an action-packed adventure game, A Way Out’s opening act sets the tone for its silver-screen story. Introduced in tandem, Leo’s character is confident despite being locked in a corrupt system and surrounded by danger. He wanders the halls, chatting and nearly getting into fights as if it’s nothing new.

In contrast, Vincent is just learning about the starkness of his new home, as he is hosed down and marched through the concrete trappings, talking to other new prisoners who have abandoned all hope. The difference in their personalities becomes a central theme throughout the prison-breaking plot, despite their shared goal of escape and ultimate freedom.

Wrong place, wrong time

Across A Way Out’s mayhem-tinged levels, you’ll choose dialogue threads to follow and perform an array of actions like stealthily taking down cops or commandeering getaway cars. Most tasks require the other player to create a distraction or assemble to lift doors and clear obstacles, though there are many pursuits that can be enjoyed on your own. The shared workload works well for the most part, but on a few occasions, one character's exploits can be cut off by the other if they accidentally trigger a key cutscene or interaction, which can be frustrating if you want to immerse yourself in A Way Out’s detailed environment.

Additional quick-time events also crop up in moments of heightened tension and require precision to succeed, like tapping the right button to avoid taking a punch or holding down a trigger to catch yourself before falling from a great height. To account for the shifting attention between the pair, A Way Out trades between a classic 50/50 screen split and a flexible one that offers more display real estate to the player performing a key action. This dynamic blend of perspectives meant that my partner and I both had a chance to feel like the central anti-hero. Occasionally, other characters can also claim a space on the screen for themselves, which adds palpable tension to your actions. Seeing this pressure manifest as a gun-wielding menace pervades the screen is an electric feeling and enough to get you sweating as you force solutions and desperately try to proceed.

Levels are broken up by story events that require you and your co-op buddy to vote and follow a particular narrative path – Leo’s or Vincent’s. Your choices shape the story and give each playthrough a more bespoke feel, even if the overarching narrative remains largely the same. Many of the differences in their personality can feel intangible. However, these impactful decisions help to give them depth by weaving those differences into the gameplay. In my playthrough, I was confident in my choice to play as Vincent, as I thought his analytical mind was more reasonable than Leo’s brash one. However, as the story played out and I became acquainted with them, I began questioning Vincent's motives. A Way Out is keen to keep you in the dark just enough to make you unsure what to choose without making you feel disconnected from the characters or the decision – an aspect I thoroughly enjoyed.

Brains or brawn

A Way Out’s world is a harsh and unforgiving one. The prison is cement and grey, with sparse spotlighting offering little escape from the oppressive mood. Metal bars and staircases shine between tarnish, with matte posters hanging from walls, faded with age. Outside, the surrounding farmland and rural areas feel hazy and vulnerable. Throughout A Way Out, you dance between these cold and warm spaces, with each location thoughtfully dressed with accessories like leaking aircon vents and playable mahogany pianos. Moreover, while many objects are just there to gawk at, some kick-off competitive games like wheelchair balancing or horseshoe pitching. While unnecessary to the story, these optional side objectives do well to offset A Way Out’s heavier themes with some lighthearted fun.

Whether you’re mainlining the plot or goofing off in a minigame, A Way Out is made all the better courtesy of Vincent and Leo’s voice actors, Fares Fares and Eric Krogh, who deliver their lines with attitude and grit. And despite solid writing throughout, some of my favorite deliveries came from the casual one-liners rather than the more significant and plot-relevant cutscenes. During the initial prison break, you can find an antique globe in one of the rooms. While interacting with it doesn’t offer anything substantial to the plot, if you spin it enough, Leo dreamily mutters, “Ah, the Pacific Ocean… that sounds nice.” Later, in the hospital, Vincent encounters an old couple bickering about a car accident. After asking their age, the old man makes a poor guess and quickly admits fault. Instead of showing empathy, Vincent sarcastically agrees that he is actually too old to drive. These small, punchy moments offer comic relief to A Way Out’s otherwise heady story and champion the protagonist’s humanity, despite the game’s often unforgiving setting.

A Way Out feels like playing through all the twists and turns of a high-end HBO show – emotionally taxing but very hard to put down. The game’s simple prison break premise quickly gives way to a complicated story about family and friendship, and I thoroughly enjoyed struggling through its immersive set pieces with the help of a friend.

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Accessibility

When it comes to controls in A Way Out, many settings can be toggled per character, so one player can play with different preferences. Inversion horizontal and vertical) and aim/focus sensitivity can be toggled individually. Vibration can be toggled on and off from the settings menu as well. Where audio is concerned, players can toggle on and off subtitles, as well as choose their audio preset (TV, Headphones, and Home Theatre).

How I reviewed A Way Out

I reviewed A Way Out in a local co-op on a PlayStation 5 playing the PlayStation 4 release via backward compatibility and did so alongside It Takes Two, in the run-up to Hazelight's latest game, Split Fiction.

I teamed my PS5 with an AOC CQ27G2 27-inch QHD VA 144Hz gaming monitor and external Creative Pebble V2 computer speakers.

First reviewed February-March 2025

A couples counselling puzzle platformer might sound like a strange elevator pitch. Yet, this quizzical pairing is the backbone of Hazelight Studios' co-op game. Following the studio's success with its prison-breaking simulator A Way Out, It Takes Two inspects a new kind of high-stakes relationship… marriage.

Here, you play as a separated couple, Cody and May, whose consciousness is magically transported into doll versions of themselves after their daughter makes an unorthodox wish to a secret magic romance book. From this sudden transformation, the duo are forced to navigate a jumbo-sized version of their home, where inanimate objects and carelessly tossed junk have gained sassy omnipotence. As they determine bric-a-brac friend from foe, their issues frequently rear their head, giving you an impression of how their marriage slid towards breakdown not by one incident but rather a series of slow nudges.

In co-op, players split control, working through the couple's issues in a literal and metaphorical sense by communicating their way across increasingly complex platforming levels. To navigate this danger-filled toy box, you can sprint, jump, dash and equip yourself with level-contextual tools that complement each other. Platforming across the game has a fluid and floaty feel, hammering home the plaything nature of the pair’s new doll bodies.

What’s your love language?

Despite levels being so full of detail, Hazelight manages a sense of progression and flow well. Points of interest like breakable glass bottles draw your attention, naturally calling you towards the next checkpoint. While it's not always the case, the obstacles often require you to use your special attack to interact with them, which also helps set the tone for future boss battles and teases puzzle solutions within the level.

Bouts of platforming are bookended with multi-stage boss battles based on the surrounding clutter of the area. The connection between each particular boss and the level made the world feel cohesive and thoughtful and helped to immerse me in Cody and May’s tragic love story. The grumbling, rusted toolbox that marks the end of the first zone requires players to work together using their respective hammer and nail tools to deal damage as it cuts away at your fragile metal stage one attack at a time.

This casually instructive style is especially noticeable as puzzles grew in complexity. Despite stopping and starting play sessions, my partner and I maintained solid momentum throughout It Takes Two. That’s not to say we were without arguments or mistakes when navigating the levels, though.

What did cause irreparable damage to my co-op relationship, however, were the PVP minigames that allow you and your partner to take on challenges head-to-head. Found across the map, the parlour games allow you to vent frustrations and brutally thwart your bestie.

Early in the campaign, my partner and I happened upon a game called ‘Flip the Switch’, which involved one player hammering buttons while the other shoots them with nails from an aerial perspective. The player who shoots the most within the timer wins – simple, right? Wrong. What ensued was a series of upsets that ended in a solemn vow not to engage with these distractions ever again — until the next one arrived, and it was just as challenging and interesting. Toys-out-of-the-pram moment aside, It Takes Two does well to surprise you with these unique offshoots throughout its story.

Trust fall

The thoughtful set dressing and character designs are a standout feature across It Takes Two, with precious tidbits of lore hidden throughout the levels. For example, if you turn up a pathway in their daughter's room, you can find action figures that pay homage to the protagonists of Hazelight’s previous co-op prison-breaking game, A Way Out. Other hidden areas reveal more tender references to games from the past, such as Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda. As I explored each micro world, I was often reminded of The Borrowers or Stuart Little, gawking at how everyday objects could be repurposed as obstacles or idiosyncratic decor.

The care for world-building applies to Cody and May’s doll designs, too, which were clearly handmade by their creative daughter, Rose. May’s fuzzy wooden tendrils and Cody’s rope belt feel haphazardly crafty in a way that represents Rose’s endearing affection for them. The softened, comforting nature of the dolls also feels like a sharp contrast to the couple’s real-world attitude, which is often barbed and biting. The longer they spend outside their bitter, bickering bodies and in their patchwork personas, the more they resemble Rose’s view of them, which feels like a warm visual metaphor for the overarching themes.

Hazelight has built its newest puzzler with plenty of care, allowing you to immerse yourselves in gorgeous fantasy worlds with considerable depth. In exploring Cody and May’s family home and interpersonal trouble, It Takes Two is a surprisingly grounded game, and I adored flipping and dashing through the family's tricky lives.

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Accessibility

In the accessibility menu, you can adjust both the contrast and brightness. From here, there are also three color blindness options to choose between (Tritanopia-Blue Weak, Protanopia-Red Weak, and Deuteranopia-Green Weak). You can toggle on Text-To-Speech and toggle the option to convert voice chat to text. Subtitles and vibrations can additionally be toggled on for either May or Cody.

Where camera settings are concerned, you can toggle settings per character. You can invert the vertical and horizontal cameras and choose how strong the automatic camera rotation is (None, Weak, or Strong). You can also adjust the camera and aim sensitivity for both the horizontal and vertical camera from 1 to 100.

How I reviewed It Takes Two

In anticipation of the launch of Spit Fiction, I played through the entirety of It Takes Two in local co-op on a PlayStation 5 and also replayed A Way Out for comparison.

I used an AOC CQ27G2 27-inch QHD VA 144Hz gaming monitor with my PS5, and for audio, I used my external Creative Pebble V2 computer speakers.

First reviewed February-March 2025

GameSir Kaleid Flux: one-minute review

The GameSir Kaleid Flux is a wired controller in the mold of the official Xbox Wireless Controller, adopting a similar layout but with a few extra features and functions to set it apart.

The large front panel and asymmetrical analog sticks will be familiar aspects to many gamers at this point. However, the D-pad is one point of difference, as it adopts a more traditional four-prong design rather than a circular one a la the Xbox controller. It’s also gold in color, as are the trigger buttons.

The Kaleid Flux further distinguishes itself with RGB lighting visible behind the transparent front panel, which offers high levels of brightness. Like the best PC controllers, this can be adjusted and customized.

You’ll also find some extra buttons, including an 'M' (multifunction) button that can be used to make various tweaks when used in combination with other inputs. These include changing audio and mic volumes of connected headsets, toggling the analog functionality of the triggers, and configuring the RGB lighting.

This M button can also be used to assign inputs to the back buttons, which are located underneath the grips. This can also be done using GameSir’s Nexus software, which contains various other adjustments, including those for the analog sticks, triggers, vibration and lighting.

When gaming, the Kaleid Flux performs well for the most part. It feels light and comfortable, fitting my hands without issue. Although it’s a wired controller, it features a detachable USB cable, but thankfully the deep recess and secure hold of the port means there’s very little danger of it coming loose.

The face buttons are snappy yet well-damped, and so too is the D-pad, making for accurate and satisfying inputs. The back buttons are also easy to use, thanks to their tactile nature and positioning, which makes them hard to mispress. The sticks are similarly smooth and precise as well.

What’s more, the ability to set the triggers to always vibrate, with the intensity based on their travel, is a useful one, helping in situations where precise feedback is important – although the feel of this vibration isn’t the most pleasant sensation.

However, it’s a shame there aren’t more advanced tweaks available within Nexus, such as the ability to change the curve profile for the analog sticks. And while there is an option to swap the D-pad and left analog stick inputs, there’s no option to switch both sticks with each other, which I would’ve found more useful.

For a wired controller, the Kaleid Flux is a little on the expensive side. There are wireless gamepads with similar prices, such as the official Xbox Wireless Controller. It also lacks the same level of compatibility and advanced adjustments of some of its rivals, such as the Manba One.

The Kaleid Flux is by no means a bad controller, since it offers good performance and ergonomics, but you’ll have to consider whether you can live with its limitations given its asking price.

GameSir Kaleid Flux review: Price and availability

• $46 / £59 (about AU$75)
• Available now in a single colorway
• Wireless rivals are similarly priced

The Kaleid Flux costs $46 / £59 (about AU$75) and comes in one colorway: black with gold accents.

If you’re looking for one of the best Xbox controllers, then you can’t do much better than the official Xbox Wireless Controller. This nominally costs about the same as the Kaleid Flux, but it can often be found for less. However, it doesn’t come with a rechargeable battery – you’ll have to use AAs or pay extra for the optional rechargeable battery pack. The official software also lacks even basic customization options, such as button remapping.

If your heart is set on a Hall Effect controller, then the Manba One is a viable alternative to the Kaleid Flux. What’s more, it features more advanced customizations, including multiple curve profiles for the analog sticks. It’s also wireless and has Nintendo Switch and mobile support, yet the price difference (at least in the UK) isn’t much greater.

GameSir Kaleid Flux review: specs

GameSir Kaleid Flux review: design and features

• Wired only
• Useful multifunction button and back buttons
• Mixed software

The Kaleid Flux adopts a familiar gamepad design popularized by Xbox controllers, with its substantial front panel and asymmetrical analog sticks. However, it adds some panache with its gold D-pad and shoulder buttons, as well as RGB lighting, which sits behind the transparent front panel, offering plenty of luminescence should you want it.

The overall construction of the body is solid and the materials feel durable. This extends to the membrane face buttons, which are reassuringly damped and smooth in operation. Despite its solidity, the Kaleid Flux also feels quite light.Although the grips aren’t rubberized, the plastic has a dotted texture which I found offered plenty of grip during my play sessions.

The included braided USB cable is similarly well-made. Since the Kaleid Flux can’t be used wirelessly, it’s a little curious the cable is detachable, but thanks to the deep recess of the port on the controller, it’s very secure and I had no concerns at all about it coming loose in the heat of the moment.

You’ll find the usual gamepad buttons on the Kaleid Flux, including an Xbox home button in the middle. However, there are some extra buttons, including a share button just below the home button, and an M button, which acts as a modifier allowing you to adjust various settings on the fly when pressed in conjunction with other inputs.

You can switch profiles, adjust RGB effects and brightness, toggle the triggers between analog and digital modes, and adjust audio output and microphone volumes when a headset is connected via the 3.5mm jack. The M button is well positioned, making it easy to reach with your thumb.

The Kaleid Flux also has two back buttons located under the grips. These can be assigned inputs by using the M button or GameSir’s Nexus software on a Windows PC.

This software allows for further customizations, including button remapping and various other tweaks. For the analog sticks, there are dead zone adjustments and an option to toggle raw input mode. However, there’s no option to swap the left and right stick inputs with one another, which is a shame. You can swap the left stick with the D-pad, but personally I find this switch less useful.

For the triggers, there are alterable parameters for their travel distance, and you’ll also find a toggle for switching between analog and digital modes here too. Vibration intensity can be adjusted as well, and there are independent settings for trigger and grip vibrations, which is more than many other controllers and their companion software offer.

GameSir Kaleid Flux review: performance

• Good trigger feedback
• Reasonably precise sticks
• Some performance tweaks missing

The Kaleid Flux performs well when gaming. The aforementioned damped buttons make for satisfying yet snappy presses, with the D-pad being a particular highlight in this regard. Its long prongs also meant that mispressing certain directions wasn’t an issue for me, yet it still retains that rolling ability when adjacent directions need to be hit in quick succession – which made Tekken 8 more pleasurable for me to play.

Offering sufficient precision and feedback, the Hall effect analog sticks perform well too. It’s a shame, however, that their response curves can’t be altered, as they can on other controllers, such as the Manba One.

The triggers also employ Hall effect technology. They offer just the right amount of travel in my view, and allow for both precise, gradual actuation, which I welcomed when playing Art of Rally for maximum car control. However, they're still amenable to snappy inputs when required.

Should you require more snappiness, however, the ability to toggle the triggers between analog and digital modes is a useful one, as it allows you to perform quickfire presses – useful in shooters where you might not need the full travel of an analog trigger. However, if you want to switch modes quickly you’ll be disappointed, as there’s some delay when using the M button method for toggling between them (it may prove quicker using Nexus instead).

The triggers also have a vibrate function, and in Nexus you can set the Kaleid Flux to override in-game settings and instead vibrate them whenever they’re pressed, with intensity based on their travel. I found this particularly useful for racing games, where the feedback this provided made accelerating and braking more tactile.

However, the nature of this vibration is a little strange, feeling more like a buzz, which isn’t the most pleasant sensation under the finger. Also, there’s a slight dead zone at the start, meaning the vibration doesn’t kick in until the triggers are a certain way along. However, both of these are minor gripes and weren’t enough to derail the experience.

One particular quirk of the Kaleid Flux I noticed (at least in the unit I reviewed) is that the left grip vibration was notably stronger than the right. This could be an issue with the motor, but regardless, this again wasn’t immersion-breaking.

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How I tested the GameSir Kaleid Flux

• Tested for a week
• Played a variety of games
• Plentiful gaming experience

I tested the Kaleid Flux for about a week, during which time I used it to play a variety of games on PC.

I played Art of Rally – a racing game that provided a good test for trigger feedback thanks to the accelerating and braking controls – and Tekken 8, which is great for putting the D-pad and face buttons through their paces, since the game requires quick and precise inputs. I also played the Mafia: Definitive Edition to test the precision of the analog sticks when shooting.

I also made sure to use as many features and functions on the Kaleid Flux as possible, including the two back buttons and M button, and tried to make every tweak and adjustment on offer via GameSir’s Nexus software tool.

I have been gaming for over 25 years across a variety of platforms, and have experienced many controllers over this time, including models that I’ve reviewed.

• First reviewed January 2025
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Two Point Studios have established a legacy of goofy simulators with their previous games, Two Point Hospital (the spiritual successor to 1997’s Theme Hospital) and Two Point Campus, asking players to succeed in institutional entrepreneurship through their set of distinctly silly business-building systems.

Now, the studio is solidifying its position with a third installment, Two Point Museum, which tasks you with fixing up a, you guessed it, failing museum after its previous owner suspiciously dipped out. Capitalizing on the series’ goofy sense of humor and forgiving gameplay, Two Point Museum isn’t hell-bent on reinventing the studio's tried and tested formula. Still, despite this overly familiar setup, Two Point has delivered a beginner-friendly management sim PC game that I found surprisingly hard to put down.

In Two Point Museum, your time is spent balancing your income through ticket sales and donations, as well as compelling guests with rare exhibits and intriguing interactive equipment like dino playgrounds and sound booths. The people are fickle, though, and it’s not enough just to have a caveman trapped in ice or a stegosaurus tail slide. You’ll also need to dress up that caveman with thematic decor, as well as send your hardworking explorers out to find more icemen in the wild, too.

To do this, you’ll participate in a mixture of active and idle gameplay, setting up Expeditions — which play like a passive resource-collecting minigame — and maintaining your customer’s happiness by building up local amenities and cleaning the museum clean.

Your staff are the hardworking backbone of your success, with essential work split between Experts, Janitors, Assistants, and Security Guards. If you can manage and train them well, the outer wilds of the game’s map become your playground, with your team able to steal enough artifacts to make your museum the greatest tourist destination in the world. The Natural History Museum might have whale bones, but it doesn't have a plant that births a clown every few minutes, does it?

You are not serious people

Early in the campaign, your primary consideration is whether to send your staff on expeditions or leave them back to work, though admittedly, this isn’t a particularly challenging choice. Both exploits earn them experience to level up and learn new skills that make them more efficient, and you can comfortably stretch to afford multiples of each staffing type from the early game. This is until you start to explore further afield, and the expeditions become more dangerous.

At first, the trips you’re making look straightforward, and you can choose your staff based on who will be missing from work rather than who is the least likely to die. That doesn’t last long, though, as certain areas on the map will eventually prop up complex Event Cards that dictate riskier barriers to success. Here, the goal becomes matching your worker and their skill to the event to nullify the issue or pay the price.

On one occasion, my under-prepared archaeology expert got IBS on a job and couldn’t work, so I had to ship him off to the hospital for a hefty cost. A few trips later, my favorite janitor went MIA, and I had to train another staff member to replace him, leaving me unable to run the missions until everyone was up to speed.

Unpredictable events also attempt to sully your best efforts and pop up mid-mission, asking you to make decisions about the expedition, with the wrong decision resulting in illness or worse. Where previously I had been haphazardly shipping off anyone to earn precious loot, I quickly began playing favorite, taking the time to neutralize threats. This consideration added a much-needed layer of strategy that did well to keep me focused and drew my attention towards staff management as an essential metric rather than an afterthought.

Outside of Expeditions, special events occur randomly, drawing your attention back to the Museum. For example, health inspections and unique visitors require the space to be in top shape when they arrive, with cleanliness and exhibit quality adding to the overall experience. While these metrics aren’t hard to hit, having a few more considerations to juggle on my way to total success was nice.

Two Point Studios’ wacky British humor is visible in almost every aspect of Two Point Museum. Throughout the campaign, I was delighted whenever a text window would pop up or a tannoy would play overhead, giving me another chance to giggle at the goofy writing. This style applies to the non-verbal aspects of the game, with the NPCs acting out and interacting with my historical pieces in unlikely ways.

As my exhibitor numbers skyrocketed, the space became more like a Where’s Wally book of cartoonish weirdos, and all it took was me to zoom in randomly and watch someone pop out of a carnivorous plant or lick an ancient amber pod. These irreverent moments of stupidity not only made me giggle but did well to break up the repetitive nature of Two Point Museums' more tedious management activities.

Life finds a way

Designing rooms and exhibits is where Two Point Museum really shines, and I thoroughly enjoyed placing tropical shrubbery and plotting dinosaur feet decals as if guiding guests through a Universal theme park ride. Visitors are most attracted to exhibits with ‘Buzz’, a metric related to how new the piece is and how well it’s dressed. Certain exhibits require specific decor to earn Buzz boosts, offering light touch guidance to your interior design exploits.

Your exhibits must also have educational prowess, with some patrons preferring edutainment over pure pizazz. Much like the rest of Two Point Museum’s forgiving gameplay, balancing these metrics isn’t overly complicated. Thankfully, the UI sorts the specific set dressing by room, so you don’t need to trawl through random menus to find your missing piece.

If dinosaurs aren’t your thing, Two Point Museum also offers alternative Museum genres, each with its own unique goal. The ghost-infested Wailon Lodge encourages you to explore a rift between worlds and house found poltergeists in unique homes that match their time period. Alternatively, Passwater Cove asks you to dive for all manner of fish and build lavish coastal aquariums to house them in. The alternate areas aren’t just extensions of the base and offer unique decor and mechanics that flesh out Two Point Museum’s foundational gameplay nicely.

Unfortunately, as much as I adored going big on design, a densely packed space was more profitable for success in nearly every scenario. While I did find time to flex my creative muscles through frosty flooring and flora-forward props, the urge to min-max my staff routes often fell higher on my to-do list than style alone. The call towards efficiency isn’t helped by the game’s ‘Kudosh’ currency, which allows you to unlock additional cosmetics by hitting specific achievements. When my bags of income arrived without much extra work, Kudosh enabled a more instrumental style play, occasionally creating a strange bottleneck for my design goals.

Thankfully, Two Point Museum’s Sandbox mode is the salve to many of these issues. Split into three sections (Creative, Career, and Hardcore), this mode opens doors to those who want to build bespoke structures, like myself, or those, ahem, masochists who are looking for a much more complex and punishing management experience.

Despite the pressure to deliver financial success and the plethora of passive systems to consider, my time with Two Point Museum was surprisingly worry-free. As I consistently dipped into the financial red and sent my overpaid workers on expeditions, I never found myself on the verge of bankruptcy or failure - a far cry from the heightened emotional investment of Frostpunk 2. Still, I felt compelled to return to my museum even without impending doom on my coattails coaxing me on, which speaks to the game’s idiosyncratic charm and accessability.

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Accessibility

In Two Point Museum, you can access the settings submenu from the Pause menu at any time in the game. From the main Game subhead, you can toggle on and off camera shake, flash effects, and character limit. You can also choose your Game Autosave frequency (Ingame - Every Month, Every Three Months, Every Six Months) and your Career Auto Save Frequency (Every Change, Most Changes). From here, you can also toggle on Subtitles and a Player Idle Message, as well as toggle UI Scale (Small, Medium) and Status Icon Filter (All Icons, Reduced Icons, Minimal Icons, Vital Icons).

Where sound is concerned, you can tweak individual streams, such as Tannoy, SFX, and UI, using a slider from the Audio submenu Settings menu. In the Controls Menu, you have the option to toggle on/off Inverted Vertical and Horizontal Camera Rotation, as well as Camera Edge Scrolling, Controller Input, and vibration. From here, you can also use a slider to dictate camera sensitivities for panning, pitch, zoom, and rotation. You can also rebind keys to suit your set-up.

How I reviewed Two Point Museum

We played Two Point Museum’s campaign and sandbox mode on the base model Steam Deck and gaming PC for around 20 hours. I used an AOC 27-inch QHD VA 144Hz gaming monitor for my PC, a Logitech MX Master 3S mouse, and a Logitech G915 TKL keyboard. I used my external Creative Pebble V2 computer speakers and Audio Technica ATH-MX50X headphones plugged into a Scarlett 2i2 interface for sound. My GPU is an RTX 3080, and my CPU is an AMD Ryzen 9 3950X.