MONOWAVE is a implausible puzzle platformer the place the characters have feelings that you should utilize to raised discover the setting.
I’ve performed plenty of platformers in my time in video video games, however I used to be actually drawn in by the look of this one. The black background and the glowing, colourful strains of the world; I used to be simply captivated by what I believed was a pleasant trying platformer. However then I used to be additional delighted when I discovered one thing that felt very polished and distinctive.
MONOWAVE is a whimsical puzzle-adventure recreation about passing in your feelings to different creatures, altering how they (and also you!) work together with the world. You begin out as Mono, a new child Guardian who is supposed to guard the entire different feelings. They was once collectively, serving to one another, however then they bought scared and scattered internationally. It is advisable to journey round discovering them and bringing them again collectively.
Touring by means of totally different areas of the map, you could find creatures who’ve particular feelings. That is proven by means of their colours. The purple, offended creatures run shortly and might hurt you, however when you’re stuffed with anger, you’ll be able to wall soar with that fury. The sunshine blue anxiety-filled creatures aren’t effected by the risks within the setting itself, permitting you to bypass them you probably have that emotion. Happiness will increase your soar, as you might be so delighted to stand up greater. While you uncover what every emotion’s energy is, you’ll be able to then use it to raised discover the world round you.
And there’s a lot to discover in MONOWAVE – hidden areas, little rainbow cubes to seize, and totally different exits. It’s fairly joyful transferring round ranges and discovering out what feelings you need to use to find these secrets and techniques and finally make it over to the tip of that space.
Within the demo that I performed at Devcom, I discovered the construct to be very polished and simply… enjoyable! The builders defined that the soundtrack is asalso vibrant because the visuals (though the occasion house was a bit loud to actually hear it). I look ahead to seeing the total recreation when it’s launched later this yr.
MONOWAVE is currenty in improvement, however within the meantime, you’ll be able to add it to your Steam Wishlist.
About The Creator
Jupiter Hadley
Jupiter is a prolific indie recreation journalist, writing for Metro UK, Huge Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and lots of extra, all with a give attention to smaller indie gems. She covers hundreds of recreation jams and indie video games on her YouTube channel, letting each recreation have a second within the highlight. She runs indiegamejams.com, a calendar of the entire recreation jams occurring on this planet, judges many jams and occasions.
