Plenty of games mine nostalgia recklessly, chucking in cheap jokes and references to keep players entertained. But I can’t think of a game that uses it as expertly as Anodyne did, paying sincere tribute to long-loved games and using familiarity to make the darkness under its surface even more
Analgesic Productions has announced that it will release Anodyne 2: Return to Dust on PC, Mac, and Linux this May. While the game is a follow-up the 2013 adventure RPG, this title will be a standalone sequel, so players will not have to play the predecessor to get into the
You are a cleaner: Your purpose is to clean, you love cleaning, this is why you exist. You are the best at what you do, no one else in existence can do it. There is no need to sleep, eat, laugh, or cry, you can clean tirelessly, forever. Does this
You are a cleaner: Your purpose is to clean, you love cleaning, this is why you exist. You are the best at what you do, no one else in existence can do it. There is no need to sleep, eat, laugh, or cry, you can clean tirelessly, forever. Does this
Plenty of games mine nostalgia recklessly, chucking in cheap jokes and references to keep players entertained. But I can’t think of a game that uses it as expertly as Anodyne did, paying sincere tribute to long-loved games and using familiarity to make the darkness under its surface even more
Analgesic Productions has announced that it will release Anodyne 2: Return to Dust on PC, Mac, and Linux this May. While the game is a follow-up the 2013 adventure RPG, this title will be a standalone sequel, so players will not have to play the predecessor to get into the
Following up on a series of teaser images, today developer Sean Han Tani announced a sequel to 2013’s Anodyne, calling it a “surreal, lo-fi 3D + 2D game.” Joni Kittaka, who worked on the original’s art and writing, is also working on the sequel. While the original went for
