Supraland

[Craymen Edge]

 

Supraland is a charming first-person metroidvania set in a child's sandbox, almost entirely the work of a single developer. You play as a red toy person who's village water supply appears to have been sabotaged by the blues on the other side of the sandbox. Your job is to find out what happened and get the water back.

 

The game looks really nice, with lots of oversized human items making up the landscape. It's funny and fun to play, the powers you gain are interesting and have multiple uses, the more you gain, the easier and more enjoyable backtracking through the area and looking for secrets becomes. The puzzles are quite inventive and it's usually clear what you need to do, I only found a couple of them a little obtuse. The combat feels a little tacked on and repetitive, only really serving as a way of gaining coins for upgrades.

 

I think it's currently PC only, both this and a sequel are apparently console-bound soon.

 

 

 

[Sly Reflex]

Crying shame nobody else picked up on this. It's really good, and has a stupid amount of secrets in it. I don't really want to say too much about it, but the puzzles are great and if you're into puzzles and rooting about using skills you have gained over the course of a game for secrets, you'll have a great time here.

 

Combat gets better as the game goes on, it's still not amazing by any standards, but it's not the reason to play this game.

 

It's criminally overlooked, I've always seen it in my library but never really pushed myself to play it until now, but I am glad I did.

[DANGERMAN]

I played it quite early on, it was in Early Access and ended pretty quickly. They've added a ton to it since, which unfortunately meant redoing everything I'd previously done, but yeah, can definitely agree @Sly Reflex it's a cool game that more people should play