Bernband’s alien panorama is the proper place for digital wandering – simply don’t count on a map | Video games

Here is poetry within the type of a recreation description. Bernband is “a sci-fi exploration recreation for individuals who prefer to wander…”. Gamers will be capable of merely stroll round a vibrant and weird world, wandering within the glow solid by streetlights and ducking beneath zigzagging overhead flags. They’ll tour hallways the place unusual inexperienced life grows politely in planters, they usually’ll even get the possibility to snooze on rattling otherworldly subway trains whereas hand grips – tentacle grips? – jiggle as they grasp overhead. “There’s no objective however to walk,” the sport’s Steam web page guarantees. “The place will your toes take you?”

There’s one thing intoxicating a few recreation that simply permits you to wander. Nevertheless it doesn’t imply the sport itself is simple to make, in fact. “Wandering [as] the primary objective is sort of troublesome for a lot of causes,” says Tom van den Boogaart, the developer of Bernband, who’s utilizing the venture to reimagine a a lot smaller model he made in 2014. “To let gamers discover on their very own, I believe you to begin with want to present them some context, akin to the place they’re and what sort of world they’re exploring.”