Adventure games

Mosaic, recently ported to consoles, is a walking simulator set in a dystopian future, where most people are nothing more than a cog in the corporate machine.  As the protagonist, the game offers a window into that existence, and being the odd one out.

Originally released this past November before moving to PC, adventure game Mosaic is now available for the Switch, Playstation 4, and Xbox One.  The game features a protagonist trudging through the repetitiveness of life set in a cold color palette. The adventure emulates the bland existence of being a corporate drone, even taking a cynical shot at the skinner box-esque distractions on our phone.  An endless clicker game stripped down to its basic parts can be found on the player’s…

I was going to write about third party games and the Switch this week but my heart wasn’t really in it. I do hope third parties continue to come to the system, but I just felt like there was something else I needed to be talking about. And then it came to me: ADVENTURE GAMES. Why adventure games? Because this genre is making a huge comeback lately, especially on Nintendo Switch. Hopefully on the day this is posted, there will…