Indika review: The least enjoyable game you have to play

Indika isn’t a video game you will enjoy playing. One of the first things you are tasked with is walking up a hill to a well, filling a bucket with water, walking back down the hill, and filling up another receptacle. You do this five times, and it is just as tedious as it sounds. Later puzzles have a similar feeling of banality, and the only reward you get is the game’s progression. You should definitely play it. The titular Indika is a Russian nun who is having a crisis of faith. It’s immediately obvious that the other nuns at the monastery aren’t fond of her, which isn’t helping her decide what’s right and what’s wrong. Should she base her morals on what she’s been taught from those older and possibly wiser than her, or should she trust her logic and her gut? Indika’s job of delivering a letter is soon sidetracked when she meets an escaped convict, Ilya, who believes his dying arm will be healed by a blessing from a holy object, the Kudets. Indika travels with him, hoping that the Kudets will rid her of t