A Fold Apart

Long-distance relationships are extremely difficult. Months—sometimes years—may pass before you have the chance to be with your partner, and what time you do get to spend together you pray isn’t interrupted. You text, call, or video chat as much as possible but that’s not enough to silence the nagging doubt and depression. A Fold Apart tackles the hardships brought on by long-term separation, usin...

A Fold Apart is about hope and how love can get us through even the toughest of times. In that way, it's timeless.

A Fold Apart is a stellar story-driven game with intuitive new mechanics and fun puzzles to solve.

It’s not every day that a video game has the capacity to move me to tears, and I can’t say I remember the last time it even happened. It’s usually easy for me to distance my emotions from a work of art or a piece of media, but Lightning Rod Games’ new puzzle game A Fold Apart has no issue whatsoever breaking down all of my walls. It’s an emotional journey more than it is a simple puzzle game. A Fo...

A Fold Apart is roughly three hours in length, which, although short, is highly polished and tells the story that it wants to tell in a way that is truthful and fun. In a time when many of us know how it feels to be separated from our loved ones, A Fold Apart provides a wonderful catharsis that celebrates the highs and lows experienced in every relationship.

A Fold Apart is full of emotion and heart that you can feel in the story. Additionally, the story can help people understand what their significant others go through when miscommunication happens. That empathy-building is to be commended. While the game isn’t perfect, it is charming and makes for a relaxing playthrough, especially as some are separated from their partners while the world is in sel...

A Fold Apart is short and pricey, for sure, but the few hours it offers are an arresting blend of devious puzzling and heart-rending storytelling. Infinitely more so if you've been in a long-distance relationship.

In relationships, couples navigate obstacles and seek solutions to life’s myriad problems together, which is often easier said than done. Taking another person’s feelings into account and compromising is a tricky balance. A Fold Apart, a 3D puzzle game, showcases this tightrope walk by exploring the challenges of a long-distance relationship and making you do one thing: fold paper. The emotional j...

Single-screen practical puzzlers can be quite satisfying to master so here's the very clever emotionally-charged indie A Fold Apart.

Puzzle games are a dime a dozen these days, so developers need to come up new and inventive ways to keep things fresh. Luckily, there have more than a few surprises lately in terms of offering gamers unique experiences. Titles like Baba is You, The Pedestrian, and The Turing Test have all successfully found new ways to set themselves apart from others in the genre. A Fold Apart from Lightning Rod ...

A Fold Apart has great music and a great art style, but it's too short and its story is too uninteresting. Perhaps if the game spent more time developing the characters, its narrative would be more engaging, but as it stands, it's difficult to recommend it over the many other games with emotional stories out there.

It’s odd talking about A Fold Apart given the circumstances. At present, we are a few weeks into COVID-19 shutdown. Friends and family are separated, and only through technology can we maintain any modicum of a relationship. A Fold Apart feels like quite the reflection of the world today. In it, a couple struggles to maintain their connection despite the vast distance. However, not unlike self-iso...