Overlight
Painting adventures with new co lours
The most impressive thing about Overlight might just be the way in which it manages to build a traditional fantasy game without resorting to cliched wackiness. It lays out a world pulsating with both figurative and literal colour, and though it makes some odd design choices it still represents a haven for those looking to adventure somewhere original.
Overlight’s creators describe it as a “kaleidoscopic” fantasy game, and one look at the rulebook should be enough to tell you the importance it places on colour and light. The traditional seven shades of light are linked to characters’ stats, to the magic system and to the world itself, which is formed of seven vast, floating continents suspended above an endless ocean.