February 2022 • Macworld 77which you play
as a young
boy lost in
the forest. Its
exquisitely
drawn levels,
ambient
soundtrack
and visceral
surprises make
sure of that.
Dying
becomes a fact
of life – dying in ever more gruesome
ways. Sometimes it will be the result
of terrible accidents, other times
you’ll fall into the clutches of giant
monsters. (You can turn the gore off if
you’re of a sensitive disposition.)
Beautiful and mournfully cruel,
Limbo is a game that will haunt you
long after you’ve switched off your Mac.
- One Dog Story
Price: £6.99 from fave.co/3ycRdAx
The retro games resurgence
continues with One Dog Story, an
old-fashioned 2D platform game
that manages to add a little bit of
variety to the standard running-and-
jumping formula.
As the game starts you find
yourself waking up in an underground
laboratory with no memory of who
25.you are or how you got there. That’s
a bit of an old gaming cliché, but One
Dog Story throws in a twist of its own
as it turns out that you’re a dog – and
somehow have the intelligence to
speak and use tools and weapons.
Clues that you find lying around
the lab hint at some sort of genetic
experiment, and as you start to
explore you’ll meet other characters,
as well as the occasional computer
terminal, that can provide more
information about the mysterious
goings-on in the lab.
One Dog Story works well as
a straightforward platform game,
with plenty of obstacles and enemy
monsters that you have to get past.
There are underwater zones where
you can only hold your breath for a
short time, so you have to escape