Can you image issues in your head? Strive it, proper now, we’ll go for the traditional factor to image, an apple. If you cannot see diddly squat, you’ve got doubtlessly bought aphantasia, a situation which is actually the shortcoming to visualise a picture inside your head. It is attention-grabbing to me as a result of I really feel I am on the other finish of it, I can image that apple fairly darn clearly. With that in thoughts, it makes me all of the extra interested in Afantasia, spelled with an f not a ph, a “surreal exploration sport a few boy looking for id in his hometown.”
Afantasia, even with its stylistic misspelling, is a superb title, I feel, as a result of it’s a sport I fairly deeply get pleasure from taking a look at. There is a lo-fi high quality to it, a pixel artwork level & click on sport pushed into the third dimension. It is moody, a bit dirty and grungy, with an acceptable quantity of mystique round it. The sport’s Steam web page offers little or no away, however affords simply sufficient to entice me.
As talked about, it is level & click on, however there’s additionally exploration in what appears like presumably second individual, and what positively is first individual views. One of many few bits of descriptive textual content explains you can delve into reminiscences and discuss to native townsfolk. The untrustworthy nature of reminiscence and recalled picture is a subject I additionally love seeing explored in video games, so I am fairly curious to see what Afantasia does with the theme.
On the time of writing, there isn’t any launch date in sight, nevertheless, a sliver of excellent information: there’s a demo you possibly can try to provide apparently half-hour of your time to, if Afantasia’s ambiance is pulling you in as it’s me. And if you do not have time, you possibly can at all times pop it on the ever-growing wishlist.
