Röki employs a cel-shaded type visual style and often looks like an interactive animated feature playing before your eyes. Whilst there isn’t really anything here that’s ground breaking in terms of the gameplay itself, it is the story that ultimately makes Röki such an endearing experience I’m a sucker for titles that mix child-like whimsy and darker narrative elements and Röki maintains an admirable balance between the two. It will all seem very familiar in terms of controls and mechanics to anyone who has enjoyed a modern point and click adventure and the puzzles are all quite intuitive and shouldn’t stump players for all that long. Exploring through the environment Tove will find items and points of interaction and must use them to solve environmental puzzles and questlines. The gameplay is firmly rooted in the puzzle/adventure genre and reminiscent of titles like Broken Age in that it utilises point and click-esque mechanics.

The story follows the protagonist Tove, a young girl who lives in a cabin with her brother Lars and lethargic father Henrik and spends most of her time tending to her younger sibling, ensuring that he’s well fed and looked after.Īfter helping Lars settle for the night by reading him a tale from a book that once belonged to her mother, Tove’s world is turned upside down when they’re attacked by a stygian beast and forced to flee their home, eventually resulting in their separation as Lars disappears into a portal and Tove must endeavour to rescue him whilst enlisting the assistance of four ancient mythological guardians. Röki is a charming little effort from developer Polygon Treehouse that is deeply rooted in Scandinavian culture and folklore, offering up a unique experience and an aesthetic quality that you don’t usually see in gaming, at least outside of the indie sphere and the rare title like Never Alone.

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