The creators of Jett and Sword & Sworcery are making a 2D mystery action game

rockpapershotgun.com:

Jett: The Far Shore and Sword & Sworcery developers Superbrothers are making a new "2D mystery action pixel videogame", in partnership with an unnamed publisher. In what feels almost like a pivot away from the developers' previous, magnificently hipster experiments, it's billed as "satisfyingly finite, immediately legible, entertaining, funny, and generally satisfying for a broad audience".

"Hipster" is an awful, weasel word, of course - a loose cousin of "pretentious", often used to shut down any game that, say, has more than three syllables in the title, or isn't immediately preoccupied with killing, or was made by somebody who doesn't have a crewcut. So let me be more specific, to the point of being reductive: Sword & Sworcery is a sort of playable electronica album with a Zelda-ish fable woven around it in which you beat up golden triangles in the woods. There's still nothing quite like it. Kieron Gillen (RPS in peace) did a lovely, leisurely write-up back in 2012, summarising it as "a game which tries to keep a sense of wonder intact, and all the while undermining it with the cast's world-weary, urbane cool." I really like this paragraph from that piece:

Its insincerity is a mask. It's the most sincere, unironic game I've played in ages. If its princess is in another castle, its princess is actually in another castle. It covers it with layers of irony, but it's based on a sincere belief that this shit means something. It could come across as being embarrassed of what it is, except its more like shyness. As in, what it's talking about is too important to be approached directly and crassly. You have to joke about it, because if you took it seriously, it'll shatter.

As for Jett: The Far Shore, it's a grating but absorbing, inventive and sometimes poetic space shooter. Jeremy Peel summarised it as "equal parts wonder and frustration, an evocative adventure that feels brilliant under the thumbs, but one whose creative systems feel stifled by rigid story-telling." I