And the first game is free on Steam at the moment!
Not yet, anyway.
Why is it so good?
Because that room festers.
You try the handle, nothing.
you could maybe see through a window but you could’t fit.
Is it my time yet?
In short, you improvise, you test the boundaries of the rules, and you explore.
And that, I hope, is videogames.
It’s funny and burned out and gymnastic and cynical.
It’s a bottle-sized open-world with parkour and spraypainting spots and people to talk to and puzzles to solve.
And it’s free right now because there’s a sequel on the way, freshly announced.
I played a few hours ofSludge Life 2yesterday, and I’m already delighted.
Just more of it.
New rooms whose interiors I can see but can’t access.
Sludge Life has that.
And so much of it.
I think: oh I should remember this.
There’s just so much.
Here is a world that feels like a crumpled-up ball of scrap paper.
It’s just brilliant.
Can’t wait for more.
