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Developer Hidden Layer Games

Publisher Chucklefish

Format iOS (tested), PC, Switch

Release Out now (iOS), 2019 (PC, Switch)

Between splash screens and a ‘discretion advised’ warning, Hidden Layer Games suggests its storyled puzzle-platformer is best played with a controller and headphones. We’d add a further recommendation: you might want a drop of the is frequently beautiful, with some of the boldest pixel art we’ve seen in a long time. Its character sprites could have come from a forgotten Game Boy platformer, while its environments are more coolly contemporary, with flashes of light and faint glimpses of a mostly shrouded sun lending colour to a near-monochromatic palette. Any warmth, however, is extinguished in a story that begins in a dark place, and only gets bleaker.