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Play Overview
Animal Well (2024) is a platform puzzle game where you explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth. Play involves collecting items that let you manipulate the world in unexpected ways. It's a layered experience that works as a platform game but also hides secrets that are hard to discover.
Play involves exploring the world like other platform combat games. As you go you find items that provide new ways to change the environment and progress to new areas. But unlike more straight forward Metroid-style games there is a survival element too. You need to light candles for safety and gradually fill out your map.
The result is a game that you can progress at your own pace and rooms you can discover in whatever order you choose. Nothing is locked off from you, provided you know what to do. What keeps it from being quickly finished is the layered depth of its secrets that the developer intends the player community to discover together. "The main game is just the beginning. Players will be discovering hidden puzzles for years."
Our examiner, Jo Robertson, first checked Animal Well 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Ollie Robertson and updated 7 weeks ago.
Play involves exploring the world like other platform combat games. As you go you find items that provide new ways to change the environment and progress to new areas. But unlike more straight forward Metroid-style games there is a survival element too. You need to light candles for safety and gradually fill out your map.
The result is a game that you can progress at your own pace and rooms you can discover in whatever order you choose. Nothing is locked off from you, provided you know what to do. What keeps it from being quickly finished is the layered depth of its secrets that the developer intends the player community to discover together. "The main game is just the beginning. Players will be discovering hidden puzzles for years."
Our examiner, Jo Robertson, first checked Animal Well 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Ollie Robertson and updated 7 weeks ago.
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Play Style
This is a Collecting and Platform game with Adventure, Brain Game, Puzzle and Traversal elements. This is a single-player game.
You can play this game in the following styles:
Benefits
This game is good if you want to:
Age Ratings
Rated for younger players in the US. Rated ESRB EVERYONE for Mild Fantasy Violence. From a 2D side-scrolling perspective, players traverse platforms, solve puzzles, and avoid various animal enemies and hazards (e.g., spike pits, fireballs). One enemy threatens players by shooting laser beams from its eyes. Some enemies can be defeated with firecrackers/fireworks.
Skill Level
11+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. To get the most from the game you need to be both inquisitive and have good resilience to keep trying when you are stuck. The deeper layers of the game require patience to get to.
Costs
Game Details
Release Date: 09/05/2024
Price: 25% Off
Out Now: PC, PS5 and Switch
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Collecting, Platform (Adventure, Brain Game, Puzzle and Traversal)
Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer )
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Developer: billy basso (@billy_basso)
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