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The makers of joyful adventure games like Chuchel last night announced Happy Game, and it most certainly is not so. They're going grim 'n' gory with this "psychedelic horror adventure" next year, bursting with blood, bone, guts, grinders, guillotines, and even a skellington. But it still looks like an Amanita adventure game, even if you maybe shouldn't share it with the kids. See for yourself…
15 years later, Samorost 2 gets a surprise enhancement update
Remember Samorost 2? I don't, admittedly, but then I was only ten years old when the whimsical space gnome set off on his second adventure. Fortunately, now's the perfect time to check out the pint-sized sequel, with the developers dropping a surprise anniversary update bringing the stylish 2005 point 'n' click up to date with enhanced visuals, new sounds, quality of life improvements and full…
Feature: No more cute robots
The makers of Chuchel outsmarted me with dog furniture in Creaks
"Oh this is easy", I thought, adding a few more moments to the endless mistake I began several decades back, "it's kind of telling me everything I need to do anyway."Creaks is a platform-based puzzle game. I thought I was not particularly good at puzzle games. I am in fact hopeless at them. I am a fool, a dunce, an entire bowl. It has stumped…
At last the next sorta spooky game from the folks that did Machinarium and the Samorost games has arrived. Creaks is another puzzle adventure, this time in a mansion full of furniture that comes to life in the dark. It doesn't look like they've awoken to attend a slumber party either. They may hunger for flesh. You can get a good gander at the puzzles…
Amanita design, the makers of cute adventure games including Botanicula and Chuchel, today announced a July launch for their next game, Creaks. You know how sometimes in the dark of night, mundane objects in your room can look like monsters? Puzzle-platformer Creaks has that but for realsies, with a fella in a weird mansion beset by terrible creatures that turn into furniture when lights shine…
Feature: Trust me, you'd remember if you had
One of the last things I expected to do in Samorost 3 was have an impromptu jam session with a singing frog hippo, bopping lizard ferret and tooting fish fox. Apparently they like busting out some tunes when the fuzzy bee bums on the nearby reeds are arranged at specific heights, and they really get into the groove when you start dancing alongside them. It…
If you've not tired of winter yet, you can have it back in The Long Dark. The Canadian wilderness survival game has been added to Xbox Game Pass for PC. It's joined by ye olde mechanical adventure game Machinarium. You can now play both if you're subscribed to Microsoft's ever-evolving library of games.
Feature: Requires more progress
The surprise announcement of a new Amanita game, while we were all happily waiting for the announced Creaks to appear, is almost certainly to do with the clandestine nature of Apple Arcade. With so many developers sensibly taking advantage of Apple's pouring money tap, and with the exclusivity arrangement extending only to screwing over Android, us PC players are enjoying a sudden windfall of meant-for-telephone…
Bloody hell, how about a heads-up next time? The adventure game connoisseurs at Amanita Designs - of Machinarium, Samarost and Chuchel fame - only went and dropped a whimsical new game without warning. Released earlier this morning, Pilgrims is freeform romp around a lovingly drawn map, guiding a band of misfits on their merry way. Bounce through the woods, make deals with devils, kings and…
Feature: Presents of mind
We asked developers: what would you gift the games industry?
We ask the tough questions here at RPS. We’re like Jeremy Paxman but in a very long bear costume. We once asked 15 developers what they’d do if they were stuck in a room with a clone of themselves. This is important stuff. Today, we ask another question: What would you gift the games industry for the holidays? We put this query to a bunch…
Feature: Batteries not included
Happy holidays! Time to see what’s in your stocking. Oh, it’s another copy of The Golf Handbook (Third Edition). And some toenail clippers. Great. No, honestly, that’s fine. It’s not like little Jemima over there is dashing about in her cool lion slippers, making you ache for an era of innocence and novelty that you can never revisit. And who cares if she’s clashing her…
Amanita Design have redesigned Chuchel, the eponymous star of their delightful 2018 adventure game, to avoid associations with blackface. Chuchel is a dust mote but with his black face, curly black hair, thick orange lips, and scampish ways, yeah, I can see the comparison. The Czech studio say they didn't consider this at all when making the game, and they don't want to be "even…
Amanita announce Creaks, a different sort of puzzle adventure
Creaks has the look of an Amanita puzzler, with its lushly detailed, painterly subterranean world of strange monsters, but the studio say it's a departure from their usual point-and-click style. Looking at the teaser trailer below, I can see why - there's a more rigid, tactile kind of puzzling going on here. The mechanical kind with pressure plates, switches, doors and ladders as standard. Developed…
Feature: The endless march of time
We're just about halfway through 2018 (which has somehow taken both too long and no time at all). As is tradition, we've shaken our our brains around to see which games from the last six months still make our neurons fizzle with delight. Then we wrote about them here, in this big list feature that you're reading right now this second.And what games they are!…
Feature: Awards from the awarded
The awards ceremony at this year’s GDC was fun. At least, that’s what John told me from his seat in the crowd, where he saw the winners mount a stage some would consider too colourful for this planet. The Independent Games Festival Awards and subsequent Game Developer’s Choice Awards saw a range of trophy-grabbers, from indie students to adventure game veterans. Unfortunately for them, I…
The wonderfully colourful and funny Chuchel, the new adventure game from Samorost and Botanicula makers Amanita Design, is now out. Our John gushed praise in his Chuchel review but who can remember as far back as yesterday? "A tour de force of animation", he said. "Daft happiness at its purest, titrated into gaming", he said. For a game this great, a reminder is warranted. Ah,…
Feature: The cherry on top
Chuchel is a tour de force of animation, every scene so vibrant and hilarious, colourful and manic, the slightest tweaks in character facial expressions eliciting guffaws. Every new scene is a glorious delight just to look at, before you even start playing with it. And then, as you click on every element on the screen, delightful, silly and gorgeous things happen. This is a game…
Chuchel, the next adorable adventure game from Samorost and Botanicula folks Amanita Design, is almost here. The eponymous tetchy fuzzball Chuchel will arrive on March 7, Amanita announced today, with a mission to simply get a cherry. He seems a wrong'un to me but I can't help smiling every time I see his defeated little face. Bless. Here, point your peepers and lugholes at this…
Amanita Design have made some of the prettiest (and best-sounding) video games, from Samorost through Machinarium to Botanicula, and their next looks delightful too. Amanita today shared a look at Chuchel [official site], their comedy adventure game due in early 2018, and I'm well up for all this. Crank your sound and have a look:
John is our usual Amanita correspondent but he's off on hollybobs so I get to poke about in the gorgeous world of Machinarium [official site] this time! The reason the eight-year-old game is back in our newsbox is because it's swapping Adobe Flash for a custom engine. So far so technical. What does it actually mean?WELL! "It's using DirectX and the game feels much smoother,…
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