ANIMAL WELL

About This Game

Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter creatures both beautiful and unsettling, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.

Explore – Illuminate The Dark

• Dense atmospheric puzzle box world with tons of secrets
• Light candles for safety and gradually fill out your map
• Nonlinear — explore and collect items in whatever order you choose

Solve Puzzles – Observation Is Rewarded

• Enemies, environment, and items interact in surprising and systemic ways
• All items have multiple uses
• Learn how innocuous details can become meaningful
• The main game is just the beginning. Players will be discovering hidden puzzles for years

Survive – Tread Carefully

• Assess for yourself what is safe and dangerous
• Focus on tension and suspense rather than action
• You are disempowered, but can make clever use of your environment and items

Reviews

“Animal Well is a delightfully odd 2D platformer that flips the traditional metroidvania on its head.”
IGN

“A Metroidvania aiming to stand alongside modern classics”
EDGE

“I could easily see this being a cult classic — if not a game of the year contender”
NME