today’s theme, courtesy of the rng-gods: two games in which the PC hides behind a physical object used to delineate the boundary between two spaces
A few hours later in the day of The Egocentric by Ola Hansson
Playtime: 16 minutes
The one where: you visit a gym locker room and collect evidence
This is a short, fun game, and smoothly implemented. You have 4 comic strip panels that represent locations available to visit. Each panel updates to indicate the passage of time, with characters moving between them. I really enjoyed the custom interface which was easy to use and catchy–very fun to get a bit of texture on the NPCs’ lives by watching what they did in the panels I wasn’t in, and this is the kind of world where people write graffiti like:
My biggest quibble is it didn’t feel like a complete game. I see that there are separate installments occuring before and after, but each game should still feel complete on its own. Here, it might have been nice to have a page of set-up about what our objective was, and something more congratatory / resolution-y at the end (I was actually driven into the walkhrough to confirm I finished the game because it felt so odd [kudos on having a walkthrough]).
Semi-off topic, games like this, where you (mild spoiler) restart the game and use knowledge that you got in earlier playthroughs, like Mikael’s phone number, but that the player character would have no way to know, sometimes bend my brain a bit. Like are we also implying the existence of a time loop?
| Front matter | ||
|---|---|---|
| Could better set the table for the game | Successfully sets the table for the game | Successfully sets the table for the game PLUS |
I quite liked the art style for the comic strip panels, which also features in the cover art.
Overall, a zippy, satisfying Game of One Puzzle with a fun art style and distinctive character voices
Gameplay tips / typos
- at one point you can click inside the comic illustration to zoom
- it worked best for me after I tweaked my browser zoom to fit four panels across the top width