Bedtime Digital Games actually do appear to have carved out a surprisingly particular area of interest for themselves on Steam. Their debut title – Back To Bed – was an isometric action-puzzle sport about guiding a sleepwalking determine again to a comfortable place to relaxation their head. Similar in perspective and elegance, their newly-released Figment, launched on Steam just yesterday, takes us deeper into the world of goals, this time enjoying a extra proactive position.
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As you may see from the trailer above, Figment is a gorgeous-looking sport, if nothing else. Full of hand-drawn 2D artwork and well-shaded 3D parts that gel nicely with their flatter counterparts, Bedtime Digital have clearly not rested on their laurels since their final launch. While Back To Bed was extra of a pure puzzle sport, Figment appears to have extra in widespread with Bastion, though with an honest quantity of puzzling issues out in-between fight. As with Bastion, audio performs a robust half in Figment, though this time leaning in direction of a dynamic musical rating slightly than fixed narration.
Playing as Dusty, a residing voice of braveness, you’re tasked with exploring The Mind. Whoever this headspace belongs to, they’ve skilled some type of trauma that’s inflicting nightmares and different such undesirable ideas, and your quest is to set issues proper and assist stabilise this particular person’s dream-world. It’s an attention-grabbing hook, though whereas the visuals are cartoonish and kooky, coping with the themes of trauma and psychological well being are tough at one of the best of instances.
Critical response has been broadly optimistic to this point, and although solely a pair critiques from mainstream websites have popped up for the sport they’ve been glowingly optimistic within the 80-90% bracket, praising it each mechanically and thematically, and whereas there aren’t too many Steam consumer critiques, they appear to again this up. The launch doesn’t appear to have made a lot of a splash, however the important response means that it is perhaps value paying this one a bit of extra consideration.
Figment is out now on PC (together with Mac & Linux) and costs £15 on Steam, down to £12.74 for the launch week. PS4, Switch & Xbox One variations are due later.
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