It’s Friday and I know a lot of people are antsy about the weekend and wanting to get through their day, so today I am here to tell you about a brilliant little flash game called Depict1. It’s an action/puzzle game, and the entire thing sort of gives me Portal vibes (in the form of the game’s “theme” and its quirky narrator), but there is a pretty big twist to the game that takes it from being a run of the mill flash game and makes it very clever: basically, it takes every typical gaming convention you know and turns it on its head.

The game requires thinking outside of the box and breaking the gaming-fourth-wall in order to advance, and every puzzle is built in such a way that it requires just a little bit of knowledge from the previous level to succeed. And the best part is, it’s quite short. It took me about, oh, forty minutes to complete it the other day on my first playthrough, including the “secret ending” (which I highly recommend taking the time to find). Just now I did it in about 15 or 20 minutes, now that I’ve got the puzzles down pat.

Go take a look at it if you have a half hour to kill and want to have fun with a quirky and clever little game. It’s definitely one of the better flash games I’ve played in some time.