I’ve played 2 or 3 hours into Olija and it seems interesting. The combat is a bit simple, but its effective enough that I haven’t really got bored with it yet.
The game does a good job in tone and atmosphere to make it feel like you’re in some mysterious, foreign place. This along with the story made it really feel like there’s some kind of inspiration behind the game. So I looked around a bit and found that one of the inspirations are “Out of this World,” and the other is the developers (Named Thomas Olsson) own personal story of moving to Japan from France, with everything feeling foreign to him, losing his comfort level.
Cool stuff.