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Essays 07 December 2023, 09:40

author: Darius Matusiak

Cocoon. The best games of 2023 – the ultimate list

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Cocoon, Annapurna Interactive, 2023

  1. Release date: September 29
  2. Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X & S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
  3. Our rating: none (Metacritic 88/100)

The publisher Annapurna Interactive usually provides low-profile, but really good games among the slew of independent releases. We should also add that none other than the creator of Limbo and Inside is behind Cocoon – so, a successful production was almost guaranteed. And what is Cocoon about? This is a top-down logic-adventure game in which we play as a strange character, a hybrid of human and an insect. Our task is to solve some incredible, ingenious environmental puzzles using orbs with magical abilities.

It's precisely these challenges and the way we use the mentioned objects that are the biggest advantage of the game. An amazing feature is that each of the colorful orbs hides its own micro-world, which we can – and often have to – enter. In addition to this, they activate some standard abilities, necessary for opening subsequent paths. So, we have here an original concept of enclosing worlds within worlds and the challenge derives from moving between them and using specific powers. It's provides a really engaging logic game, in a pleasant artistic style. Cocoon is certainly one of this year's gems of Game Pass.

  1. Cocoon in our encyclopedia

Darius Matusiak

Darius Matusiak

Graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism. He started writing about games in 2013 on his blog on gameplay.pl, from where he quickly moved to the Reviews and Editorials department of Gamepressure. Sometimes he also writes about movies and technology. A gamer since the heyday of Amiga. Always a fan of races, realistic simulators and military shooters, as well as games with an engaging plot or exceptional artistic style. In his free time, he teaches how to fly in modern combat fighter simulators on his own page called Szkola Latania. A huge fan of arranging his workstation in the "minimal desk setup" style, hardware novelties and cats.

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