If that weren’t enough, the soundtrack is surprisingly affecting and powerful, and along with the fantastic visuals and gameplay, it will keep you coming back for more. Beyond avoiding pitfalls and predators, you can also upgrade your weapons and skills and find new equipment. The game’s world is vast and beautiful, containing threatening enemies, strange technologies, hazards, and long-buried ruins. It features an enticing (if you’re of a certain age) 16-bit graphical style, through which you explore a forgotten land in a bid to cure yourself of a seemingly incurable illness. Offering a slash-em-up/RPG hybrid, Hyper Light Drifter is one of the best adventure games you’re likely to find on iPad. It sounds fairly simple at first glance, but with multiple plot threads and a uniquely haunting graphical style, the game is pretty absorbing. You then set about exploring the base, with in-game conversations and puzzles helping you along the way. It’s a supernatural mystery thriller in which you play as teenager Alex, who, along with her friends, unwittingly opens a “ghostly gate” during a party on an abandoned military base. Love Stranger Things? Oxenfree provides you with another way to get a Stranger Things-style kick. Not only does it look great, but the gameplay is laudably complex and rewarding, with the gameworld responding to your actions and with its puzzles offering multiple solutions.
You play once again as Robert Foster, who, in the search for a kidnapped child, is led to Union City, an ostensible utopia where people are monitored by a supposedly benign artificial intelligence (A.I.) - sound familiar? Aside from this interesting premise, the game looks absolutely gorgeous, benefitting from art direction courtesy of Dave Gibbons, the artist responsible for the Watchmen graphic novel.
Revolution’s long-awaited follow-up to their 1994 dystopian point-and-click classic Beneath a Steel Sky, Beyond a Steel Sky is a puzzle-based adventure that truly lives up to its pedigree.
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