No roguelite reeks quite like the wonderful Morsels

Here is simply a database of discarded items I tin spot from my desk, astatine the clip of writing: 1 portion of mud tracked successful from a adjacent forest, with a curl of oak leafage poking retired of it; 2 condensed, perchance sentient balls of spiderweb; 2 fingernails (I know, it’s a unspeakable habit, I committedness I’m not this gross successful due bureau environments); 3 screws that truly should beryllium portion of my bed; 1 discarded vessel of antivac; 10 unidentified somethings.

What bash each these objects person successful common? Obviously, they would marque astonishing roguelite protagonists. I cognize this due to the fact that I person been playing… Morsels!

Edwin: I was expecting Morsels to beryllium a belter, aft sampling it astatine Summer Geoff Fest, and Furcula’s creature-collecting roguelite didn’t disappoint. It’s a stomach-churning palimpsest of worlds themed astir mutant rubbish - some literal gobs of sentient trash, and assorted popular civilization gargoyles that callback some Goya and 90s animated TV shows.

There are elephantine noses successful hoodies, map-invading adders, beached whales, chortling dumpsters, and cats that alteration into crabs and carnivorous plants. It makes for a borderline unreadable experience, and that’s conscionable the mode I similar it. More games should flirt with being unreadable. It’s a joyousness to brushwood a caller force successful Morsels and person nary thought what it’s going to do.

Your abilities arsenic subordinate aren’t rather arsenic brain-bending arsenic each that, though we’re a agelong mode from the people archetypes successful accepted phantasy roguelites. In brief, you’re a rodent clambering up done layers of procedural dungeon, aft being eaten and excreted by the Cosmic Cat. The titular Morsels are hot-swappable characters with bizarre abilities.

Hogsel is simply a chomping snake that steadily consumes itself. Shromsel buds into clones, steered with the aforesaid controls – a backstage service obtained astatine the outgo of slower movement. You’ll level Morsels up and endow them with assorted modifiers arsenic you propulsion done each tiny labyrinth, searching for the exit ladder.

Along the way, you’ll get into astatine slightest 1 utterly chaotic, aggregate room, pinball instrumentality combat with assorted furballs, fatbergs and faeries. The game’s physics are often your worst enemy, but the critters are conscionable arsenic prone to being caught retired by richochets and accidentally triggered explosions, and the effect is simply a winning “ecology” of knock-on effects. If you weary of the map’s volatility, determination are puzzle chambers you tin duck into that notation a clump of aged games, from Frogger to Snakes & Ladders.

Look back, I deliberation you’ll beryllium little jolted by Morsels if you’ve played The Binding Of Isaac, but I deliberation Morsels stands isolated by mode of its dumpyard premise, its sheer ocular imagination, and its unusual loveliness. The satellite mightiness beryllium a cesspit, but it is besides a sloppy embrace, a raucous gutful of secrets that plays similar a disreputable relative of Animal Well.