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BREAKER by Daniel Linssen, Dubmood & Martin Kvale

Birdsong by managore

Rating: 🍬🍬🍬

Birdsong is a quaint little platformer with a twist: a small one, sure, but one that makes all the difference. You play as a little bird in a limited-palette of a world stained in umber hues, and your goal is to explore, collect sticks, and build nests that also act as save points. WASD or the arrow keys are your friend. There's a non-invasive and rather soothing background track that accompanies you on your journey.

There are spikes and weird fizzing balls of energies orbiting platforms, and the height of your jumps bounce up and down allowing you to access various parts of the map at various times. As usual, everything’s trying to kill you: spikes, wobbly platforms, more spikes.

Sounds typical, right?

Your worldview is distorted. Literally. Think staring into the back of a spoon or a particularly snazzy snowglobe. That's all you can see until you move into the next screen. It’s a surprising challenge that makes this a fun game.

Walkie Talkie is a fully functioning chatroom in which you can chat with others online. There is a major difference between this and AIM though –  every message you send turns into a mini platforming level for others to play!

Reap is a nice little open world-ish game in which you control your character as it chops wood to build a craft, or sows and eats it turnips. As the sun sets and rises and your little character sleeps off its all very cutsey, but it would be wonderful to have some more gameplay elements. Still lots of fun to play.

Ratings: 6/10

Reap by Daniel Linssen

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