Mon Amour
Developer/publisher Onion Games
Format PC, Switch (tested)
Release Out now
For Yoshiro Kimura, this was always going to be “a small diversion” before the Next Big Thing: the game he thinks might well be his final RPG. And even compared to Kimura’s recent output, Mon Amour is a slip of a thing: every stage, of which there are 50 in all, is just 15 seconds long, and controlled by a single button – or, if you’re playing on Switch, by tapping the touchscreen. Indeed, while we’d recommend the former, the alternative control scheme hints at where the idea may have originated. Yes, this bit of throwaway silliness ends up as perhaps the smartest riff on Flappy Bird we’ve played.