I originally said that Infinity Nikki was like a dress-up Genshin Impact, but after entirely too many hours of playtime over the weekend I'm becoming convinced it's more like a dress-up Dark Souls. Nothing has solidified that theory for me more than discovering that players have been using the Snapshot function—essentially the only form of multiplayer Infinity Nikki has right now—to drop hints to puzzles and quests in a manner reminiscent of FromSoftware's messages.
Infinity Nikki's Snapshot function is currently working like a picture-based version of Dark Soul's orange soapstone messages—when folks take a picture with the in-game camera, they can slap a caption on it and turn it into an hourglass, which drops in the location the photo was snapped. That hourglass can then appear in other players' worlds, which is mostly intended to be a way to let them take photos with you, or add you as a friend.
