A change, it’s often said, can do you good. Tempting though it may be to stay within our comfort zone, it undoubtedly benefits us to embrace new challenges. Accepting change is, after all, how we learn and grow; it makes us more adaptable; it allows us to re-evaluate what’s important to us; it provides us with new opportunities and experiences. In short, change makes our lives more interesting.
As this month’s Hype crop proves, the same applies to games. (If it didn’t, we’d all still be playing Spacewar! – and with all due respect to Steve Russell, no one wants that.) The curious canines of Wobbledogs cocoon themselves when it’s time for a change, emerging with anything from a different-coloured body to more legs: the result of each metamorphosis is determined by their food intake. As in Bugsnax, here you really are what you eat.