The creator obviously read Kafka's stories (Not just his popular ones, but more obscure ones like "On the Tram" and "Before the Law") , and you could say the design is somewhat "Kafkaesque," in the sense that the puzzles are irreducably busted and pointless. Unfortunately, as an experience, it doesn't push things far enough to truly be good or compelling. The crummy thing about this game's design is that you are just left with a random setting with little clue as to what to do. Sometimes the solution is painfully obvious, other times it's incredibly unclear.

The hints were kind of necessary because there's absolutely no explanation as to what you're supposed to be doing most of the time. In point and click games usually some little hints is buried in the dialogue, but here you get a blank screen with a bunch of (usually) red herrings, so the solution is sometimes something that can't be figured out without the hint system, which is bad. A few cleverly satisfying puzzles, but overall incredibly pointless and not really a game worthy of Kafka's name.