Part of You (v1.0.1r)

Hacksaw Springs turns a missing-identity mystery into a gleefully strange point-and-click adventure, where a clown convention, a possible bomb threat, and a town full of eccentrics all compete for your attention. You play an unnamed protagonist trying to recover who they are, following clues toward the convention center’s Lost and Found while getting tangled in local problems. The mood is absurd, colorful, and deliberately off-kilter rather than threatening, with humor built around bizarre character designs and nonsense that somehow becomes logical. Part of You treats its central question with a light touch: identity is important, but it is also something the game happily lets you rearrange.

Progress comes from talking to residents, examining the town’s busy districts, and using a set of facial-feature tools to solve environmental puzzles. A flipper inverts expressions, a stamp copies mouths or eyes between people, masks let you borrow another character’s appearance, and googly eyes can radically alter how someone reacts. Puzzles revolve around understanding what each oddball needs, then manipulating faces, disguises, and social situations to open a new route or earn a useful favor. More than 100 characters populate the town, and helping its shopkeepers, protesters, flea-market regulars, and rooftop weirdos steadily expands the cast of faces available for experimentation.

What makes the adventure stand out is how directly its puzzle design ties mechanics to comedy: changing a person’s smile or swapping their eyes is not cosmetic fluff, but the key to navigating conversations and obstacles. The hand-crafted town feels dense with throwaway jokes, minor side stories, and personalities that invite players to test every tool on everyone they meet. Its visual identity leans into exaggerated cartoon faces and intentionally awkward transformations, giving it a playful weirdness closer to classic LucasArts-style adventure games than a conventional detective story. Fans of humorous puzzle adventures, strange small-town mysteries, and low-stakes experimentation should find plenty to enjoy, while newcomers benefit from the approachable premise and veterans can savor the inventive, character-driven puzzle setups.