Wield hag magic against glitchy pixel dungeons in this glorious migraine of a platformer

Babushka's Glitch Dungeon Crystal is retired now, has a demo

In these days of combing online imagery for symptoms of genAI “hallucination”, it’s casual to hide that erstwhile upon a time, mutant video crippled visuals were beautiful. There's a full genre of creation dedicated to them. Here to punctual america is Babushka's Glitch Dungeon Crystal, a gorgeously scruffy 2D platformer successful which an aged woman explores a large magic cellar, hitting graphics paper malfunctions with a broom. Think Animal Well, but some you and the simulation aren’t arsenic young arsenic you utilized to be.

Babushka's Glitch Dungeon Crystal is the enactment of Jakeonaut, who is partial to busted pixels. It launched connected Saturday and inactive has a demo connected Steam, which I promote you to try. The satellite is made up of fizzy, marbled terrain tiles, wavering clots of achromatic noise, and anomalous 3D fixtures. It's similar the game's carcass is being feasted connected by a clump of antithetic aesthetics. More literally, the geography besides teems with critters specified arsenic frogs, crickets and chickens who tin beryllium meddled with to assorted end. I walloped a cricket and it chewed a spread done immoderate scenery for me, which astir ne'er happens successful existent life.

The protagonist is nary little delightful for her determinedly low-tech method of making headway. Ah, if lone I could hole my aged iBook’s addled GPU by smacking it with a dustpan and brush. Mind you, it's not each flailing broomsticks. You tin besides larn "hag magic" spells from totems, switching betwixt them with spacebar.

These see higher jumps, the quality to ascent up walls, and walking connected air. It’s a acquainted postulation of platformer abilities, perhaps, but there’s the committedness of others that fto you “glitch” the levels much adventurously. You tin lone retrieve 2 spells astatine erstwhile because, arsenic a tutorial NPC politely explains, you’re old. You besides hide spells erstwhile you locomotion done definite errors, which feels similar a instrumentality the developer volition usage to bookend the game’s puzzles. There's a gloomier undertow: the Steam leafage mentions themes of "aging, senescence, and fearfulness of mortality."

Find a demo connected Steam oregon Itch.io. Sold connected this? You mightiness besides similar to effort Axiom Verge. Or for thing that loosely fits the designation of being a crippled astir glitches, but has a batch much going connected than that, effort Problem Attic.