Recent 2D indie game called Fountains has really great interconnected world design with no fast travel aside from a very diegetic and barely useful mine cart track. The difficulty is ultimately too punishing imo but it's worth the time investment for the world design alone

Congrats on nearing release! Played the demo a few years back and it's been on my mind ever since. Definitely picking it up on day one!

It's really great! So smart how any time you upgrade, you're drastically altering 1/6 of your deck, so every choice feels super impactful. Also, the character designs are hilarious

Like, I'd be fascinated to hear about what happened. Assuming devolver assesses the financial standings of their partner studios, you'd think they set aside enough money to fund the rest of development, right? So either things got wildly over scoped, or devolver only signed HM for marketing /promo?

Why do they have doors?? Who is going inside them????

Looks great, is it just sprite stacking?

Been playing a bunch lately after following the game for a long time, truly a one of a kind experience!

also not 2D but northern journey has one of the most vivid worlds I've seen in a game

The original knytt is really good/weird

*these lol

Every time I make a game I'm like what do I do with three superfluous 480 pixels

Also, may I say I loved surmount!

Nice to see someone shouting out the characters! Found the writing to be some of the strongest I'd seen in a game in quite a while!