It’s simple to get the fallacious impression of Golem at first look. Released simply immediately, this point-and-click journey may simply be mistaken for a platformer, particularly contemplating the tempo of the motion within the trailer inside. Instead, what we’ve acquired is a purely mouse-driven sport, telling the wordless story of a younger woman and her pet rock, by which I imply you get to go all Ico/Last Guardian with a shape-shifting pile of stone.
Reminding me a bit of little bit of Wii point-and-clicker Zack & Wiki, Golem is managed completely by means of primary pointing, clicking and swiping, though your choices look to step by step enhance as you discover new physique elements for you Golem pal. The creature begins out as only a floating orb that that you must roll from place to position, however ultimately it positive factors a pair of legs, and later turns into massive sufficient to hold you round, returning the favour.
There’s apparently an honest chunk of story to the sport, though it’s delivered completely wordlessly. After all, solely one of many two protagonists has a mouth, and the opposite is a magical sphere, so that they’ve in all probability not acquired an excessive amount of to debate as they journey. It’s good to see a sport with such clearly detailed environments focus so closely on minimalism in different regards, and this mixed with the easy interface does appear to be it’d make it a very good place to begin to introduce youngsters to an ordinarily unforgiving style.
Golem is a little bit of a departure for builders Longbow Games. Previously they reduce their enamel on the long-running Hegemony collection of historic real-time technique video games, so Golem is treading completely new floor for the studio. The sport additionally appears to have launched very quietly, with only a few websites having opinions at launch, and solely a pair user-reviews on Steam at current. The few opinions circulating do appear quietly constructive, though it is likely to be finest ready just a few days to see how the earth settles over this one.
Golem is out now on each Steam and GOG for £11/$15, minus a 10% launch low cost.
