99 FAILS

Developer/publisher Frying Jelly

Format Android, iOS, PC, PS5, Switch

Origin US, Poland, Netherlands

Release Q1

From a distance, looks like selfpunishment for the joy of it: a trial-and-error puzzle-platformer with warped, Double Fine-esque characters and a learning curve reminiscent of . To pick out one of the more ghoulish touches, missing a jump here drops you into an expanding purgatory of dead protagonists, recalling how levels in than failure. Or rather, all those failures pay into an exploration of some complex ideas and emotions: transhumanism, surrealism and the personal traumas of Frying Jelly’s founder , who describes the game as an exercise in “gameception” – forming patterns only to break them as it tunnels into the suffering of a character whose body is constantly changing.