Judero explores Scottish folklore as players wander a hand-crafted countryside and take on the shape of creatures for puzzling and battles.
Our main character is a Celt who has a deep connection with the natural world around him. With those abilities, you’ll be fighting back against some sinister forces that are secretly working in the background of this striking handmade world. How do you fight back against these forces? Sometimes you’ll do it by joining with some of the various creatures that live in the world around you. You never know when a little critter roaming around is the perfect helper to solve a puzzle. If a particular monster isn’t impressed by your intellect, you can always smack them with your club instead.
You’ll be forgiven if you lose your nerve a bit when some of these stop-motion creatures fight back against you, though. The animation style has a tendency to give the monsters a really eerie feeling as they move, making them far more intimidating than I thought they’d be. Given how much this art style scared me as a kid, I shouldn’t have been surprised, though. That said, the style isn’t purely unnerving. Seeing the lands and people represented in handcrafted ways, as well as all of the effects the developers have crafted, is a treat in and of itself.
It was really easy to find myself meandering through Judero and just taking its world in. That’s not the greatest idea when something’s nipping at your backside, but the game and everything in it look so striking – it’s beyond impressive to see all of the detail that went into this handcrafted world and to just enjoy the work that went into building it all. It’s a delight to play with its puzzles and action, but it’s in seeing its hand crafted world in motion that I really felt myself falling in love with this compelling experience.
Judero will be made available today on Steam.
About The Author
Joel Couture
Joel has been covering indie games for various sites including IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Magazine, and more over the past seven years, and has written book-length studies on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is constantly on the lookout for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what games can be, and seeks to delve into the creative process, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.
