‘MONOWAVE’ Solves Puzzles By means of Altering Feelings

MONOWAVE is a unbelievable puzzle platformer the place the characters have feelings that you need to use to higher discover the surroundings.

I’ve performed loads 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 assumed was a pleasant wanting 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 sport 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 received scared and scattered the world over. It’s essential to journey round discovering them and bringing them again collectively.

Touring via totally different areas of the map, you will discover creatures who’ve particular feelings. That is proven via their colours. The crimson, indignant creatures run shortly and may hurt you, however if you end up crammed with anger, you’ll be able to wall bounce with that fury. The sunshine blue anxiety-filled creatures aren’t effected by the hazards within the surroundings itself, permitting you to bypass them you probably have that emotion. Happiness will increase your bounce, as you’re so delighted to stand up larger. While you uncover what every emotion’s energy is, you possibly can then use it to higher 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 shifting round ranges and discovering out what feelings you need to use to find these secrets and techniques and ultimately 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 essentially hear it). I sit up for seeing the total sport when it’s launched later this 12 months.

MONOWAVE is currenty in improvement, however within the meantime, you possibly can add it to your Steam Wishlist.

About The Creator

Jupiter Hadley

Jupiter is a prolific indie sport journalist, writing for Metro UK, Massive Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and plenty of extra, all with a concentrate on 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 the earth, judges many jams and occasions.