Legendary indie developer Lucas Pope has launched Moida Mansion, a model new recreation impressed by Tiger Electronics handhelds and Sport & Watch which you could play proper now on PC.
Pope is maybe greatest identified for the likes of maritime detective recreation Return of the Obra Dinn and oppressive document-checking simulator Papers, Please, however Moida Mansion has an altogether totally different tone, as you’ve got in all probability guessed from the humorously phonetic spelling of “homicide” within the title.
On Moida Mansion‘s Itch.io web page, it is introduced as a charmingly old-school handheld throwback, with the display surrounded by character art work and a few correctly chunky-looking retro buttons (which you will must click on to work together with the sport).
Moida Mansion‘s show pays homage to the units Pope was seemingly impressed by; it is received a monochrome colour scheme and the refresh price is low, resulting in an impact that is nearly a slideshow-style sequence of nonetheless photographs reasonably than a fluid, transferring picture.
The sport can be accompanied by a pleasant 80s-style instruction handbook; in truth, Pope himself says that Moida Mansion was “a very good excuse to make a really 80s instruction handbook”, apologizing to any gamers “struggling by [his] youth right here”.
You play as a member of the Journey Membership, an intrepid group of children who’ve wandered into the titular mansion with a view to discover a wayward turtle mascot. Sadly, you are not alone within the mansion, and so you will need to search for your lacking buddies whereas additionally avoiding a “horrible monsta”.
You will want to go looking by objects to search out your mates, and rooms within the mansion usually comprise secrets and techniques or hidden passages as effectively. Not solely that, however Moida Mansion “is consistently altering”, as Pope says, so every run will not be the identical.
Moida Mansion operates alongside comparable traces to Mars After Midnight, a piece simulator Pope designed for the retro Playdate console line, in addition to the equally LCD-heavy LCD, Please, a Sport & Watch-style tackle Papers, Please.
You may play Moida Mansion proper now on PC through Itch.io, and you too can discover a few of Lucas Pope’s different work there in case you’re fascinated with checking that out.
