Florence

Developer Mountains Publisher Annapurna Interactive Format Android, iOS, PC, Switch Release 2018

Florence Yeoh encounters Krish Hemrajani, and it’s not love at first sight – it’s love at first sound. Their meetcute is a combination of two different relationship metaphors, wonderfully and wordlessly illustrated in a sequence in which the title character is both knocked sideways (the game switching from portrait to landscape orientation for a single chapter) and quite literally swept off her feet (she floats dreamily past fellow pedestrians, buoyed along by the bright melody coming from Krish’s cello). And Kevin Penkin’s delightful score offers a third. If a particularly well-suited couple are said to make beautiful music together, then Florence and Krish would appear to be the perfect match, her cheerful piano and his dancing strings contributing equally to a gorgeous, lively duet as their relationship blossoms.

Before the two hook up, however, we get a sense that the life of this 25-year-old Australian office drone is