The other games on Yoshio Ishii’s development blog are also very special. He just keeps on inventing, and in almost every single one of his games there is more creative potential than in your average industry title. And more than in your average highly praised Indie game as well.

You couldn’t put the message behing Cursor x10 any clearer. You are a cursor, and you must help your fellow cursors, which all become your alter egos within limited time frames, to reach “a goal”. To reach a goal, whatever it may be, you must cooperate with yourself. You must come to terms with yourself. Maybe meditate a bit.

And then find your way up the stairs, all the while collecting points and solving puzzles and triggering minimalist animations. It is an experiment in memory as well as in terms of game mechanics – can you find a fitting strategy in a 3D game world with the third dimension being time, not x, y or z? And what if I told you it was a 4D game world with time restrictions? Can you handle point-and-click dimensional failure?