Y’know that photographic development of making an attempt to match an outdated photograph by snapping a brand new pic in the identical location? Snapdragon riffs on that, taking a handful of outdated images to a wee abandoned island the place issues have modified fairly significantly. Scrutinising ruins and landmarks to line up my view and recreate the images additionally jogged my memory of Photobomb, and I’m at all times pleased to keep in mind that pleasant dystopian snap ’em up. Snapdragon is a brief, vibrant, chill, and spooky explore-o-puzzler, and that’s it okay go take a look bye.
We arrive on the pink-tinged island with a photograph in hand, having to search out the unique spot the place it was taken. Recreate it and it’ll swirl into one other photograph, main us on a winding path throughout the island and thru the village snap-by-snap. The deeper we get, the extra completely different the current seems. And the extra terrible?
It’s a peaceful and quiet game however I did get a bit spooked, beginning after I stopped merely scanning the panorama for matching options and checked out smaller particulars. It’s eeriness.
Snapdragon doesn’t demand we line up photographs completely–we’re not doing it for the ‘gram, remember–but I found a satisfaction in matching shots anyway. It probably only took me fifteen minutes to reach the end so I was in no hurry. And yeah, that’s size for the game. I might’ve appreciated to see only a contact extra of the strangeness however I used to be glad doing gentle puzzling whereas wandering a reasonably place.
Snapdragon is on the market on Itch.io for Windows, Mac, and Linux as pay-what-you-want with no minimal worth. It’s made by Jan Orlowski, I consider as a part of a college class.
