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The term “role-playing game in the universe of” is certainly known from afar Dungeons gives it the dour air of an item reserved for a group of bearded irredentists who only swear by turn-based gaming. But the surprising success of Baldur’s Gate 3 the de facto excerpt from the niche in which it had to carefully fit itself, and the general public recognizes the creation of the Belgians from Larian Studios at its fair price: quite simply one of the craziest games of recent years. By its scope, by the richness of its extremely modular narrative, by its game system of dizzying depth, by its way of respecting the player and their decisions. A dream game.
But let’s say that we want to move on to something else (terrible mistake) or that we don’t have a PC or the latest console. We can then advise you to venture into the waters of excavator that develops a toxic Lovecraftian story behind the trappings of a harmless fishing simulation. Or play Champollion next to the Toulouse de Rundisc, its beautiful Songs of Sennar is to climb the Tower of Babel and decipher the secrets of its hieroglyphic languages. A great humanistic puzzle that involves laying the foundation for a system of communication, that is, learning to read others and appreciate their way of seeing the world. Yes, but it’s a bit boring for children, isn’t it? Surely.
And video games are also for children. In a year marked by a Zelda (absolutely brilliant) and a Mario (flawless), we recommend taking a look Bye, An extremely colorful and eco-friendly getaway steeped in Kanak folklore. And for those who don’t play video games because they don’t have time, they don’t have a console, there remains an emergency exit that can be played with a child on your lap: the genius teller, Available for free if you have a Netflix subscription and a phone. A delicious puzzle that requires you to rearrange the flow of a story. Argentinian Daniel Benmergui’s creation is impressively intuitive, reinventing the comic into a video game. It’s short and simply brilliant.
