Can you image issues in your head? Attempt it, proper now, we’ll go for the basic factor to image, an apple. If you cannot see diddly squat, you’ve got doubtlessly received aphantasia, a situation which is actually the lack to visualise a picture inside your head. It is fascinating to me as a result of I really feel I am on the other finish of it, I can image that apple fairly darn clearly. With that in thoughts, it makes me all of the extra interested by Afantasia, spelled with an f not a ph, a “surreal exploration recreation a few boy looking for id in his hometown.”
Afantasia, even with its stylistic misspelling, is a good title, I feel, as a result of it’s a recreation I fairly deeply get pleasure from . There is a lo-fi high quality to it, a pixel artwork level & click on recreation pushed into the third dimension. It is moody, slightly dirty and grungy, with an applicable quantity of mystique round it. The sport’s Steam web page provides little or no away, however gives simply sufficient to entice me.
As talked about, it is level & click on, however there’s additionally exploration in what appears like probably second individual, and what undoubtedly is first individual views. One of many few bits of descriptive textual content explains that you would be able to delve into recollections and discuss to native townsfolk. The untrustworthy nature of reminiscence and recalled picture is a subject I additionally love seeing explored in video games, so I am fairly curious to see what Afantasia does with the theme.
On the time of writing, there is not any launch date in sight, nevertheless, a sliver of excellent information: there’s a demo you may try to provide apparently half-hour of your time to, if Afantasia’s environment is pulling you in as it’s me. And if you do not have time, you may at all times pop it on the ever-growing wishlist.
