Mon Amour
Review

Mon Amour (2021) is a platform game about love and diversity. You play with one button to keep jumping and stay in the air, Flappy Bird style, in an effort to save people by kissing them (and setting them free from their nightmare). Like Flappy Bird, you will die a lot here, from archer attacks or forgetting to press jump. But here the result is a pastel-coloured, pixelated world, where love comes in all shapes and sizes.

Play involves flapping your way through each level, avoiding projectiles and staying off the ground. Complete each level to get to kiss your princess, and all 64 of her loyal subjects. To save all of them you must overcome ever more challenging traps and surprises, scattered across each level.

As you progress you gain a chain of people following you through the world, until you arrive back home to set them free. It's a peculiar but endearing game about kissing and dying, all to the seamless stylings of improvised vocal jazz.

Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Mon Amour 2 years ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 23 months ago.