Luckily between environmental clues, and a “ping” feature which highlights which items can be interacted with in each of the panels, the game does an exceptional job of not leaving you lost and confused at any point in the release's couple hour run-time. You are dropped into the environment and it’s up to you to figure out what you need to do. The game also has no dialogue, and there is no tutorial.
These situations felt a little more precise on the PC, but if you haven’t played a previous version of the title, it’ll more likely than not be a non-factor controlling the game on PlayStation is perfectly fine. This delight is further expanded upon as the puzzles get increasingly more complex, soon involving many steps, and there’s a few particularly brilliant puzzles towards the end of the game that require multiple steps and quick timing as you have to shift the panels around to get objects to travel from one picture into another. The catharsis that comes from solving the puzzles single-handed in this game is a delightfully exciting thing to experience. The explanation doesn’t necessarily do the process justice, but the puzzles are so intuitively clever that we want to take great pains to avoid spoiling any of them.īoiling the title down to its most basic, the game is sort of a hidden object game mixed with environmental puzzles, but the literal depth of the images adds an entire extra layer to the way you approach the game. Each panel houses art work, and within each you explore environments to find means of splitting the panels apart and recombining them to create new images. Gorogoa is a puzzle game that involves the movement of four panels arranged in a square. Gorogoa is actually a title we’ve been calling for getting a console release dating back to PAX East in early 2017, and mercifully, it sounds like someone was listening. After the success of Edith Finch, Annapurna’s second publishing initiative was a curious little hand-drawn puzzle game by Jason Roberts, which launched on Steam in late 2017. Publisher Annapurna burst into gaming with indie darling What Remains of Edith Finch last year and since then has announced a number of promising games including the console version of this writer’s favourite game of all time, Kentucky Route Zero. And it just so happens to be one of those games. Have you ever played one of those games where it became immediately apparent that you had something special on your hands? Something so good that it may well fundamentally change the manner in which you play and think about games? Well this is Gorogoa.
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