Nelumbo helps a small, misplaced woodland creature by way of an ever-changing array of pure puzzles that stand in the way in which of their journey house.
Nelumbo is a platformer filled with light puzzles and considerate environments that encourage some playful exploration. There’s a form of story that occurs together with it, however not one of the narrative moments are advised by way of phrases or textual content. As an alternative, every thing is converyed by way of footage and reactions from the principle character itself.
You play slightly forest creature of the identical title as the sport. This critter is trying to make their manner house. This sounds straightforward sufficient, however you aren’t fairly certain the place you’re or the place house even is. Because it seems, there was some form of unusual occasion that has induced you to finish up fairly removed from your individual house and now it’s essential to determine what’s going on in your world to higher discover your manner again to your own home with out getting misplaced additional.
The entire sport is hand drawn and full of plenty of beautiful moments and exquisite puzzles. It adjustments stage by stage as you’re employed by way of wild environments which are full of tough interactions so that you can determine. For those who can remedy the makes use of of the assorted natural world, it is best to have the ability to a manner ahead and hopefully make it that a lot nearer to your house. From utilizing bubbles to get increased to swimming in ponds to ready for platforms to alter, there’s a lot to find and make use of.
I acquired the prospect to play a demo of Nelumbo at BIG Conf, the place I discovered myself within the visible fashion. The world is simply cute and pulls you in! The builders defined that their larger image is to attempt to create an atmospheric, form of stress-free kind of puzzle sport that attracts the participant into it. The sport is on the smaller aspect, however nonetheless actively being labored on, so we should wait to see the place the story goes ultimately.
Nelumbo is presently accessible (free of charge) on itch.io.
About The Creator
Jupiter Hadley
Jupiter is a prolific indie sport journalist, writing for Metro UK, Massive Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and lots of extra, all with a give attention to smaller indie gems. She covers hundreds of sport jams and indie video games on her YouTube channel, letting each sport have a second within the highlight. She runs indiegamejams.com, a calendar of the entire sport jams occurring on this planet, judges many jams and occasions.
