Oh look, a bizarre free puzzler from the OlliOlli devs

I’m hacking one thing, I feel. I’m some sort of software program entity, burrowing into a pc that doesn’t need me there. I can inform due to the safety applications, which lumber in direction of me each time I take a step. My job is to keep away from them for lengthy sufficient to seize an information file, after which teleport out of dodge.

OlliOlli builders Roll7 have simply launched RunMe, a bizarre, free puzzle game that jogs my memory loads of 868-Hack. 868-Hack was nice, in order that’s a promising comparability.

As the game’s Itch page says, it’s intentionally opaque. All Roll7 will let you know is that it’s “an esoteric turn based puzzle game with glitch graphics, weird sounds, and a bunch of strangeness”.

I’ve performed for ten minutes, and may let you know somewhat extra. It’s about outmanoeuvring digital pursuers, by being attentive to how they transfer and what their capabilities are. Your first foes transfer predictability, one sq. at a time, and may’t assault alongside diagonals. That means they’re simply dispatched with the straightforward assaults you begin with, however they do immediately respawn. You’re higher off pondering of them as obstacles to navigate relatively than enemies that have to be destroyed, which could be very 868-Hack.

Between ranges you get to purchase highly effective, one-off talents, like firing projectiles in each route or teleporting someplace protected. It’s all very lean and minimalist, and set solely inside no matter digital underlayer you’re purported to be poking into. It’s a robust look. Admirably easy, and really crimson.

Roll7 pitched this to publishers again in 2018, however moved on as a result of they “couldn’t really get the project going”. “It’s unlikely that we’ll ever get the time or capacity to do much more with this game (unless there’s a stack of interest on here)”, they are saying, “so we thought it would be cool to just put it out and let people see where we got to.”

That’s a pleasant thought. Cheers, Roll7.

You can have a play your self, at no cost, by grabbing RunMe from Itch.