Ynglet
Publisher Triple Topping
Developer Nifflas
Format PC
Release Out now
Nifflas’ latest is a bundle of fascinating contradictions and juxtapositions. In Ynglet, the line between safety and peril is only ever a few pixels thick. You control a creature that feels by turns graceful and clumsy, weightless and heavy. You can be plummeting one moment and soaring the next. Its world is a top-down map presented as a side-scroller, in which microscopic organisms navigate spaces the size of city districts. Wonderfully abstract yet somehow oddly personal, it’s calming then exhilarating, both a mellow exploration game and a challenging twitch platformer (that isn’t really a platformer at all). And it’s entirely up to you how you experience it.