![]() ![]() You’d probably best get on that, if you’re thinking of taking advantage of the great games on offer. The Steam Black & White Indie Games bundle is available now and – unlike the Humble bundles – we haven’t been provided with a closing date for this one. No really, it’s a massive, boxing duck ( pato is the Spanish word for duck). The final game in the Steam Black & White Indie Games bundle is Pato Box, a modern take on Nintendo’s Punch-Out!! featuring a very muscular, anthropomorphised duck. This one also found its way onto our list of the most important games of 2018. In a bundle filled with absolutely stand-out games, it’s hard not to focus on the most recent smash hit, Return of the Obra Dinn, the latest game from Papers, Please developer Lucas Pope. Different folks for different strokes, we suppose, but it’s a short, snappy adventure told in an intriguing and unique way. Minit may not have clicked with our reviewer, but the game has a ‘very positive’ rating on Steam and 80% on Open Critic. Hidden Folks is a hand-drawn, modern take on Where’s Wally? (or Where’s Waldo? for our American cousins) while West of Loathing is a hilarious, cowboy-themed RPG made of jokes and doodles. Though both games share a somewhat similar, line-drawn art style, they’re very different experiences. There aren’t enough nice things in the world to say about Hidden Folks and West of Loathing. Also, it has gun boots, that you use for both shooting stuff and slowing your descent. If you don’t know what all the fuss is about there, you should read our report on his talk from GDC 2016. Next is Downwell (watch this space for our review of the Nintendo Switch port), the vertically-oriented shooter from indie developer Ojiro Fumoto. It’s a tense, fraught experience, and one that sticks with you. It’s not even a massive discount on this occasion – a mere 10% off the combined price of each individual game – but the games that are included in the Black & White Indie Games bundle? They are of the highest calibre.įirst up in the Black & White Indie Games is Playdead’s Limbo, the monochromatic, atmospheric platformer that is loved by critics and players alike. ![]() Why try so hard to break in to a place like this? Whether you figure it out or not, I bet if you try it, you won't be able to stop pressing forward.In a rare departure, here’s a video game bundle – the Black & White Indie Games bundle – that’s not from Humble.īuying a bundle from Steam won’t raise any money for charity (as it does with charity store, Humble) but you will still save money on some great games. Something's inside, but it may leave you with more questions. Limbo had an Edward Scissorhands cartoonishness at its core, but Inside's more realistic style creates something more and more unsettling.ĭon't expect much in the way of answers. Inside, like Limbo, can be fairly disturbing, but since it shares the zoomed-out, low-resolution viewpoints of its predecessor, much of that imagery will take place in your mind. But it's a tight four hours you're always doing something interesting and things are varied enough to maintain a nice state of flow. This does result in a game that's fairly easy to complete in a few brief hours for anyone versed in the genre (and maybe even newbies). The puzzles never feel like Rube Goldberg machines, just artful implementation of a few basic building blocks. Most of Inside's puzzles use just a piece or two of scenery there's a beauty to its minimalism. Inside's greatest strength is its ability to hold back: There's just enough of each type of puzzle to keep you on your toes, but never so much that they wear out their welcome or become overly complicated. It gets more complicated from there, but not too complicated. RELATED: 10 Best AAA Games For Nintendo Switch (January 2019) A lot of the game follows a young boy as he works his way through the shadows of a worrying future. Within a minute, you feel like you're really being chased. While it's only a spiritual successor, there is a lot that connects the two of them such as a rather obtuse story, for instance. From the off, Inside sets a beautifully horror-tinged mood as you avoid the headlights of oncoming trucks, or just barely dodge the snarling jaws of an attack dog. You'll be using your imagination to fill in the rest-the darkest parts of it. You won't get a whole lot more insight into the plot than that-this is a total pantomime, and there's no writing save for a few dilapidated letters and numbers on formerly legible signs. The story of Inside, released today on Xbox One and July 7 on Steam, concerns a boy who's risking life and limb to break into some kind of facility where (you find out rather quickly) some kind of experiments are being conducted on humans. Inside, like the studio's freshman effort, is again a monochromatic, tense, haunting, side-scrolling puzzle game, but with six years of effort under its belt, Playdead now delivers a masterclass in its form. Playdead, developer of the acclaimed 2010 indie game Limbo, is finally back with its second game six years later.
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