Behold, the strangest online game of 2024 By Joseph Foley revealed 25 August 23 The graphics look unimaginable.
I am certain I am not the one one who discovered a few of the information at Gamescom this week a bit, effectively… boring. Whereas video games proceed to make nice technical advances, an absence of character makes them merge right into a generic blur. However one sport stood out as a possible antidote.
Already trying just like the oddest online game of 2024, Thank Goodness You are Right here! includes a quirky provincial setting, hand-drawn animation, actual voices and continuous double entendres. And it seems superb (see our decide of the very best Nintendo Change video games for our present favourites).
Thank Goodness You are Right here! is described as an “absurd comedy slapformer set within the weird Northern English city of Barnsworth”. If that does not sound like an thrilling premise, it will get even higher. Your character is a travelling salesman who has to soak up the websites and carry out a sequence of strange jobs for the locals. As you full the duties, extra elements of the city are opened up, and the odd jobs get progressively odder.
It may not sound like edge-of-the-sofa stuff. However coupled with an absurdist sense of humour and exquisite visuals, the sport seems like a real breath of recent air. A number of folks have prompt that it boasts the very best artwork course of something revealed at Gamescom, and certainly your complete design seems gorgeous, presenting an in depth open world via a mixture of side-scrolling motion vignettes and top-down exploration. The Yorkshire accents and nostalgic soundtrack are the icing on the cake.
The sport is the work of Yorkshire sport studio Coal Supper, which has type with the odd The Good Time Backyard sport. The writer is Panic, of Untitled Goose Sport fame. It is on account of be launched for PC, Nintendo Change and PlayStation 5 early subsequent 12 months. You’ll be able to wishlist it at Steam.
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