Badland
Distributed by GamePix. This game is embedded from its publisher and remains their property.
About Badland
An atmospheric side-scrolling platformer set in a forest that looks like a fairy tale and behaves like a trap. You control one of the forest's own inhabitants and move through scenery that keeps producing new hazards. The mood is as much of the point here as the difficulty is.
How to play
- Guide your forest dweller through each side-scrolling stage without being caught by the scenery.
- The obstacles are traps and physical hazards rather than enemies to fight, so this is a survival problem, not a combat one.
- The publisher's emphasis is on variety: the trap designs keep changing as you go deeper.
- Reaching the end of a stage carries you further into the forest.
Tips
- Assume anything that moves is a hazard until it proves otherwise. The art style deliberately blurs the line between decoration and threat.
- Play this one with sound on. Atmosphere is most of what separates it from every other side-scroller in this list.
