Let's Try: Catlandia: Crisis at Fort Pawprint, If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers, Dry Drowning
It's the Indie Game Wednesday roundup for Wednesday, May 19th, 2021.
- Intro: 00:00
- Catlandia: Crisis at Fort Pawprint: 03:11
- If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers: 51:39
- Dry Drowning: 2:00:04
Catlandia: Crisis at Fort Pawprint is an adorable, yet surprisingly challenging RPG where you are an elite Catmando defending the cat realm of... the park. You and your teammate (I only had one in my time playing, there could be more) are given orders by your commanding officer, and off you go. You quickly find out that there is a plot afoot, and you have to get to the bottom of it. Fun writing, adorable visuals, and combat that is actually challenging! I just wish there was a UI scale.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a game told in 4 parts. I only played through the first 2, but I can tell youL it is not a happy game. It's not a bad game at all, but it is heavy. It deals with some Real Themes and everything always ends tragically. The art is wonderful, as is the music direction. The pace is slow, there is some pixel-hunting, and some of the puzzles are just... kind of irritating to solve. Overall, a great game held back a bit by design decisions.
Dry Drowning is a detective game set in a dystopian futureverse where fascism is on the rise and everything is kind of awful. Pretty typical. You play a detective (one of a duo) that recently got some innocent people killed, but somehow got cleared due to the legal system being bad. Your first case is to help someone on the local fascist political party clear there name, which is a hell of a way to start a game. That's about as far as I got. There is a lot of UI.
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