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Biomorph

Biomorph is a nice 2D-platform-puzzle or metroidvania-style game, where you lead your character, Harlo, through a vast amount of areas, fighting enemies, working on quests, collecting new abilities and searching for various collectables. In addition Harlo has the unique feature to be able to morph into previously defeated monsters to use an develop their abilities as well.

In the spirit of Ori and the Blind Forest, Ori and the Will of the Wisps or Hollow Knight there’s endless quests and a huge world to explore and here and there it seemed ridiculously difficult, but in the end, I enjoyed it a lot and maybe spent way too much time one it.
So yeah, it’s a recommendation …

Live Steam statistics:
Achievements: 30/30

Paper Trail

Paper Trail is a puzzle game where one has to guide main character Paige through various riddles to help her leave her parents’ home and reach university, where she can fulfil her dream of studying astrophysics.

Set in a world made of double-sided paper, players must fold the sheets of life in the right way to create paths from one level to the next. The story takes a back seat, but if you like puzzles, there are plenty to solve in this fun gameplay concept.

Live Steam statistics:
Achievements: 35/35

Bionic Bay

Bionic Bay is 2D platform puzzle game where one has to help a scientist escape a world filled with trap. To solve puzzles and circumvent hazards, one learn abilities such as swapping places with objects, punching objects, slowing down time and flipping gravity.

It’s been extreme fun to struggle with something challenging, so it’s a definite recommendation.

Live Steam statistics:
Achievements: 21/32

Hollow Knight

Hollow Knight is a beautiful and, in parts, ridiculously hard 2D platform action-adventure game in which players must guide the main character, the Knight, through a maze of underground worlds and districts, fighting numerous bosses along the way.

The game is extremely captivating and addictive, but also frustrating at times due to the high number of failures. It also brought back nice memories of the Ori games as well as Unbound: Worlds Apart. I’m not sure how to achieve things like finishing the game in under five hours, given that it took me over fifty hours to explore everything.

Anyway, I loved playing the game and I’m looking forward to playing part two at some point.

Live Steam statistics:
Achievements: 45/63

Unbound: Worlds Apart

Unbound: Worlds Apart is a fantastic, extremely well made and extremely challenging (for me at least) 2D puzzle platformer in which you guide a mage called Soli through a maze of puzzles using different types of portals and abilities.
The graphics are great, the soundtrack is great, but it did cost me some nerves as some of the challenges were annoyingly hard and here and there it needed the support of the next generation.

All in all, a wonderful game with great gameplay that’s a lot of fun to play (despite the difficulties I had). Definitely a recommendation, especially if you like games like Ori.

Live Steam statistics:
Achievements: 36/36