Indika, the darkly comic story of a young nun in a surreal world, is out now
You might assume that Indika will be dour, given that it's a story-driven game about a nun in a grey, cold, alternative Russia. Then you watch its trailers and find surrealist imagery, genre-hopping, and a bleak sense of humour are part of its arsenal, and suddenly it seems, to me, irresistible.
It's out now.
I love this trailer, and several of its previous trailers. Well done, trailer editor.
Edwin spoke to the co-founder of developer Odd Meter, Dmitry Setlov, late last year, who explicitly described Indika as "boring", even as it's shot through with what Edwin described as phantasmagorical flourishes.
I know, I know - in what week is there not the release of a grotesque, photoreal, third-person nunlike inspired by the works of "Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Pasternak"? EA have annualised their entry in the genre. And yet I felt it was my duty to alert you that this one specifically has been released.
You'll find Indika on Steam for £18.89/€22.49/$22.49.
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