So nobody informed you life was gonna be this manner; your job’s a joke, you’re broke, a portal sucked you away. That’s simply one other Wednesday for me, although for you warping to an alien world to discover the ruins of a long-dead civilisation and clear up puzzles could be extra novel. If so, you may fancy a have a look at Epitasis, launched right now.
There we’re, going about our Earthling enterprise, once we discover a portal and… properly, what portals are like. Soon we’re exploring the an alien world, poking round ruins, messing with know-how, aligning lasers, placing crates on buttons, discovering artefacts… puzzle game issues. What I’ve seen jogs my memory a little bit of first-person puzzlers like The Talos Principle, Myst, and J.Blo’s Puzzle Island.
I do all the time have a concern that games which open with a number of hours of peaceable puzzling will slowly transition to horror. Sounds over the horizon. Movement seen out the nook of my eye, distant sufficient that I assume it was grass within the wind or a glitch. Sounds behind me. Objects not being the place I left them. Sounds throughout me. MONSTERS IN MY FACE. I don’t suppose Epitasis will do any of this. I nonetheless concern it would. Nice one, Alice, actually carried out a quantity on your self.
You can nonetheless obtain the old alpha demo which accompanied its successful Kickstarter campaign in 2017 however clearly that’s fairly outdated now.
Epitasis is out now for Windows and Mac from Steam and Itch.io. A 10% launch low cost brings it all the way down to £13.94/$17.99 till subsequent Wednesday, May eighth. It’s made by Epitasis Games, which I consider is mainly simply Lucas Govatos, with music from Funk Fiction.
