19th October
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve been playing over the past few days. We’ve moved this to a regular Saturday slot to give it a little more time to breathe – appologies if you came looking for it on Friday. This week, we tackle some puzzles while holidaying in a cabin, we go back to a game that had been forgotten about, and try to find some grip during a sharp turn on snow. What have you been playing?
Catch up with the older editions of this column in our What We’ve Been Playing archive.
Isles of Sea and Sky, PC (Steam Deck)
I was on holiday last week and did almost nothing except hole up in the countryside cabin we were staying in, read some books and play video games. It was glorious, partly because it was tipping it down with rain for 80% of the time we were there and there’s nothing better than tucking into a good game while cosied up under a warm blanket with a steady stream of tea on tap. The good game in question was the very good Isles of Sea and Sky, which came out earlier in the year asking: ‘what if The Witness was a game all about Sokoban puzzles and also looked a bit like Link’s Awakening in the process?’