Cassette Boy

Cassette Boy
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2334330/CASSETTE_BOY/

Cassette Boy is an isometric Zeldalike adventure game with Game Boy style retro graphics. It’s like a combination between Tunic (in its isometric Zelda-ness) and Fez, in that you can freely switch the perspective at 90-degree angles.

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The conceit of solving spatial puzzles by making objects “disappear” through perspective shifts is a neat idea, I guess, but I ended up returning this game for a refund.

Good Boy

Good Boy
https://longneckturtle.itch.io/good-boy

Good Boy is an adaptation of a super creepy urban legend that takes about three or four minutes to play. You take on the role of a young man preparing to turn in for the night, and you can explore and interact with everything in his one-room apartment. For good measure, you can pet the dog playing with a tennis ball on his bed as many times as you like before going to sleep.

In the middle of the night, the man wakes up to a strange scratching at the door that doesn’t seem to be stopping anytime soon. Rest assured that nothing bad happens to the dog, but the man might not be so lucky. I’m familiar with the story this game is based on, but the ending still managed to get me. Very nicely done.