17th November, 2023
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: nordic horror, axolotls, and karting
If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, here’s our archive.
Loddlenaut, PC
Loddlenaut is one I’ve been looking forward to ever since I played the demo earlier this year, and it hasn’t disappointed. It continues what I’ve noticed as an eco-conscious trend in games – you play as a worker whose job it is to clean up the waters of a planet from rubbish and industrial waste, while befriending local wildlife along the way.
As you explore more of the game’s areas, you learn more of the planet’s (and your employer’s) history. The company you work for attempted to use the planet’s underwater fruits and veggies for energy, but caused an oil spill. Rather than sticking around to mitigate the issue, the company packed up and moved all of its employees out, opting instead to send one person back, the player, years later, to clean up the mess and restore the planet’s balance of nature.
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The cleaning up part of the game is very relaxing. Floating around and sucking up plastic with my little bubble gun is addictive to me and I often ended up ignoring where the game wanted me to go next in favour of following trails of rubbish around the map and exploring.