Wonder of Blue is a very pretty, startlingly hard Alice in Wonderland dungeon crawler, with zero American McGees

I'm inactive a small burned-out connected Carrollian adaptations aft Nightingale, but I volition not fto that tarnish my enjoyment of Wonder of Blue, a fey 2D labyrinth roguelite based connected fiction's astir celebrated Alice aft Alice Bee (RPS successful peace). It features a beauteous enactment of pixelart colour palettes, and immoderate pleasingly tricksy enemies. You play Liddell – yes, I excessively had forgotten Alice's 2nd sanction isn’t “in Wonderland” – and you are trying to navigate a bid of procedurally generated dungeons made up of single-screen rooms. At the extremity of the travel waits the Red Queen.

Along the way, you’ll encounter: owls that alert up and crook invisible earlier diving astatine you; butterflies that spit orbs that location wrong a definite range, often catching you from down erstwhile you dodge-twirl past them; floral fans that whirl themselves towards you successful fits and starts. I similar the arcane yet sparse quality of the force movements. It makes maine deliberation of the geometric plan of the older Castlevanias - and of the maddening mathematics of Carroll's archetypal novel.

I besides similar that my default peculiar determination consists of hurling a feline named C.C., due to the fact that this has maine fumbling aft connections betwixt cc’ing radical connected emails and the disappearing Cheshire moggy from the books. Please discuss.

As for the roguelite elements, you’ll find treasure chests that connection a prime of 3 random items, a la Vampire Survivors. These see playing cards for alternate peculiar moves, and exploration tools specified arsenic a representation and compass. You whitethorn request each the assistance you tin get: adjacent erstwhile playing the demo connected Casual, which lets you retry idiosyncratic labyrinths connected decision alternatively than permadeathing you backmost to quadrate one, I recovered advancement tough. Liddell’s hitbox and harm cooldown timer are not arsenic generous arsenic they mightiness look from the blithe presentation. A tip: opponents don’t outpouring into question until you’ve afloat entered a room.

You tin find it connected Itch.io and Steam. I similar this. I similar its unassuming yet hypnotic level patterns and nested timescales and absent-minded inheritance music. Sort of hoping for a astonishment David Bowie appearance, tbh.