Move this panel up to reveal the layer beneath, which features a briefcase with a diagram and a clock tower in the background. Zoom into the banners on the wall to cause the coal to fall on the glass jar, shattering it and releasing the moth inside.įollow the boy by panning to the left and zoom out to enter another Gorogoa home, then zoom into the man reading at the desk. Switch the panels again as the coal is still falling and zoom into the building’s window to enter the room. This will cause the coal to fall into the angel’s hands.
Before the coal reaches the bottom, switch the two panels and zoom out from the bottom one, then zoom back into the figures of the horse and the angel in the same panel. Zoom into the box and move the panel with the building beneath it to align the matching yellow banners, causing the coal to fall into the scaffolding of the panel below. This will cause a piece of coal to drop and break the pot beneath. Zoom back into the box of coal on the shelf of the studying boy’s room. Pan over to follow the red-shirt boy into the other panel and zoom into the building in the back. In the panel with the statue holding the basket, players must zoom back out until they return to the boy studying. Zoom into the scene the boy is thinking of to combine the panels and allow the boy with the bowl to walk off the screen, following the direction the statue is pointing. In the panel with the fruit symbol, zoom out to reveal a statue holding a staff.
The title is inspired by swashbuckling tales and cinematic adventure games of generations past, so if you're into old LucasArts games, for example, this may be one for you.Ĭheck out the game's Microsoft Store page here, and clock a trailer below.įinally, The Pedestrian asks you to rearrange and reconnect public signs in order to explore and advance through each engaging environment.After attracting the moth in Chapter 3 of Gorogoa, zoom into the moth’s wings and move the top layer to another panel to reveal the yellow fruit symbol beneath, then zoom the whole way back out to see a scene of the boy thinking of the statue from the starting area. "Through adventurous exploration, narration and razor sharp combat, the player will discover a strange world and its inhabitants, including Olija, an enigmatic lady that Faraday finds himself bound to over time." "Armed with a legendary harpoon, he and other castaways try to leave this hostile country to return to their homelands," reads a blurb. Next, there's Olija: a game about Faraday's quest, a man shipwrecked then trapped in the mysterious country of Terraphage. It comes off as impeccably simple, yet satisfyingly complex.Ĭheck out a trailer below and see its Microsoft Store listing here.
The gameplay of Gorogoa is wholly original, comprised of lavishly illustrated panels that players arrange and combine in imaginative ways to solve puzzles.
Let's go through them one by one: first up, it's Gorogoa, a puzzle game from Annapurna Interactive that sells itself as "an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts." Because Microsoft clearly didn't think that its Xbox Game Pass offering was decent enough already, the company has just added a surprise three more games to the service in the form of the gorgeous, hand-drawn puzzles of Gorogoa, the shipwrecked action-adventure of Olija and the 2.5D side-scrolling puzzle-platforming of The Pedestrian.
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