Look, I assist ‘art’ as a lot as the following particular person however these oh-so-meta strolling simulators like The Magic Circle and The Beginner’s Guide want to know that there are guidelines. These guidelines are clear: every video game must have a double-jump. No exceptions. Thankfully, Minor Key Games perceive this. Their newly-released Eponymous: In Which a Work Is Known by Its Reading has a narrated story guiding us by way of seemingly an in-development sport, however we’re additionally double-jumping – and even mantling! Allegory is extra enjoyable for everybody after we observe the foundations.
Minor Key describe Eponymous as “a short-form narrative about unreliable infrastructures” and I’ll not say way more than that. I loved it, and never only for the double-jumping.
Eponymous is the work of J. Kyle Pittman, the Minor Key brother behind Super Win The Game and Gunmetal Arcadia (David is the Pittman man who created Eldritch). It appears to be constructed within the gameguts of Eldritch and whatnot, that are all the time good guts to mantle round in. Minor Key are good about respecting the foundations.
You’ll discover Eponymous for Windows, Mac, and Linux on Steam and Itch. It’s £2.09/€2.99/$2.99 on Steam, about mainly the identical on Itch with minor tax fluctuation.
