Pony Island

Critic reviews

• Game Informer

  Jeff Marchiafava · Jan 29, 2016

  7.5

  Pony Island isn't particularly long. You can see everything there is to see in a couple of hours, and you'll likely need to browse the Steam forums to do so, as some of the secrets are too obtuse to solve without the collective mind trust of the Internet. Nevertheless, Pony Island is an experimental and novel experience with some memorable surprises.
• PC Gamer

  Angus Morrison · Jan 22, 2016

  9.1

  Pony Island picks up themes and ideas until it’s large enough to reach past its videogame constraints and start messing with your reality. That’s you, the reader, not ‘you’ a hypothetical Pony Island player—it creates the illusion (oh, please let it be an illusion) of toying with the real world, to the degree that when it ended I stood up, in an office to myself, to mime the splatter from my blown mind hitting the corners of the room.

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• IGN

  Cam Shea · Jan 18, 2016

  9.0

  I greatly enjoyed the two or so hours it took me to play through Pony Island. This is a game that delights in toying with your expectations and in breaking the fourth wall, in revealing its sinister yet playful world, and in building up a compelling antagonist and telling an ambiguous story. Pony Island is about as punk rock as they come.

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• Hardcore Gamer

  Luke George · Jan 15, 2016

  9.0

  Very quickly, Pony Island’s subtle ominousness becomes a journey into utterly fun madness. We were constantly surprised by the direction taken and the varying mediums for that direction. Fantastically portrayed through the excellent use of a multitude of techniques, the tone and theme is incredibly fresh.

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• The Escapist

  Angelo M. D'Argenio · Jan 14, 2016

  8.0

  Pony Island is an incredibly clever puzzle-horror game that manages to immerse you in a screwed up world of ponies, code, and demonic machinations. Puzzle game fans will get a lot of enjoyment out of Pony Island's many coding puzzles and anyone who likes narrative or experimental games will love the way it screws with your head. Just don't buy this thinking it's an actual game about ponies.

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• Destructoid

  Laura Kate Dale · Jan 10, 2016

  9.5

  Pony Island messes with players in unexpected ways that stuck with me for days. It took a number of unexpected turns that caught me off guard and was constantly filling me with a sense of inescapable unease. It wasn't on my radar at all before it released, but at under $5 it's a wonderful use of two hours of your life.

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