Cassette Boy is a Fez-esque puzzle RPG that is Schrödinger's cat, the game

A interaction of Tunic and a splash of Zelda successful determination to footwear too

Cassette Boy is simply a crippled that looks to travel successful the footsteps of position puzzlers similar Fez and Tunic, 2 games I bring up due to the fact that of their explicit usage of abstraction to fell more, tantalizingly concealed space. Out of the two, it's overmuch person to Fez, being a 2D satellite you tin rotate to summation new, 3 dimensional perspectives. Where Fez is simply a platformer that switches betwixt different, inactive 2D planes, Cassette Boy lets you power betwixt beforehand connected and much isometric views, and successful its world, thing that can't beryllium seen, doesn't exist.

This means antithetic things. Cassette Boy is simply a puzzle RPG, 1 that emulates the look of an archetypal Game Boy game, and RPGs typically travel with dangers. Perhaps there's immoderate benignant of nasty beastie blocking your path, oregon spikes with nary spread to transverse through. Simply rotate to a caller angle, and poof! They're gone. Rotate immoderate more, and they popular close backmost into existence. You tin spot wherefore the developer's referred to it arsenic a "Schrödinger System."

There are battles to beryllium had arsenic well, with reasonably simplistic but coagulated capable sword-based combat you've seen successful immoderate of the 2D Zeldas. I wonderment however that, successful particular, whitethorn travel into play passim the game, but I'm besides funny if puzzles spell a spot further than conscionable making enemies oregon NPCs vanish truthful you tin locomotion forwards, arsenic that's mostly what the game's trailers show.

Still, it's a neat concept, 1 that I'm funny capable astir to marque maine privation to cheque it out. And I don't person to hold agelong to bash that! As it's presently slated for merchandise successful conscionable implicit a month's clip connected January 14th, 2026. Aside from the existential fearfulness that comes from the dependable transition of time, that's beauteous good! You tin wishlist it connected Steam here.