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(1:57) “Oasis: Part Three” by WiL (2026) [https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/oasis3_museum/]
A tower to the heavens falls short in this finale for WiL's latest.
After dealing with a bug with resuming the game (which has had a fix already uploaded). Our Picross puzzles powered by memories continue, as we draw ever closer to the swirling vortex in the sky that has taken our good friend and crewmmate Tara. The Picross is, well more Picross. WiL's engine continues to deliver a well-constructed engine whose only real annoyance is the lack of a draw mode to spare pressing space on each tile in a row/column.
The puzzles get a bit more abstract, making it a fun challenge to guess what they are as you solve them, with plenty of surprises that don't become clear until the end. Unlike last week, where my game was on point, this time I do a really bad job of the puzzles! Frequently misclicking, overcounting, and sometimes just inventing numbers I guess. So getting our tower constructed takes a bit longer than expected, only for there to be a finale that leaves the nice clean engine behind and brings players into the pain vortex.
It lives up to its name. But also I was hungry and getting a little cranky when I expected the game to be over only for it to pull out a deliberately obtuse "puzzle" with character commentary about how miserable and impossible to comprehend it is.
Even so, this final chapter helps move the story to the foreground, properly connecting it to the previous Oasis rather than simply being an excuse to draw pictures of tigers. And WiL, ever the showman, has plenty of cool visual effects in this area that always manages to wow me. (Who knew blocky text glyphs could animate so smoothly?)
A cool game with a cool crab, but I would advise having a snack during the intermission, and making sure that you're not time constrained as you head into the final chapter. Also all ZZT games are canonical to one another. Thank you.
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♦ Streamed Apr 10th, 2026
