Indie Corner: My Brother Rabbit

Welcome to our review of the visually stunning game called My Brother Rabbit, out now on Nintendo Switch!

A beautifully drawn adventure set in a surreal world of childhood imagination.

My Brother Rabbit is a beautifully drawn adventure set in a surreal world that mixes reality with a child’s imagination. A young girl faces a terrible reality when she falls ill. The little girl and her brother use the power of imagination to escape the hostile outside world.

Together they envision a fantastic universe that provides the play and comfort they need. In this magnificent land of make-believe, a little rabbit wants to nurse his ill friend the flower back to health in any way he can. On this journey, the rabbit must use his wits to decipher puzzles inspired by classic point-and-clicks to continue his adventure.

Help the rabbit play mini games, find hidden objects, and assemble strange machinery in a world where conventional logic doesn’t apply. Join this colorful quest through five wondrous lands filled with robo-moose, levitating baobabs, giant mushrooms, melting clocks, and more unbelievable things that will make you question everything you think you know about reality.

My Brother Rabbit

This game brings out an ingenious way to take a simple hidden items game and make it more of an adventure rather than a game and I commend the developers for this. Strapped in a visually stunning package with those gorgeously drawn backgrounds that just fit the story so well.

And how it takes you from searching for multiple items at the same time to only finding some until you open up the next area only to make you go back later on for that other item, pure genius.

At first, I was looking for some spiders to solve a basic puzzle, but in order to find all of them, I had to enter the next and previous screen. I had to take the lid off of a bucket and take a look at a drawing on the wall, … It was incredibly fun to go all the way.

And though some parts are hard to figure out, you can get through those parts by really looking thoroughly. At one point I was missing my last spider to advance. I could not find it at all and suddenly, there it was. The sleeping guy had it underneath his hat. It was so thrilling to actually find it. Just to be stuck again 3 minutes later. I loved every bit of it.

I am a persistent gamer when it comes to these games but I fear the more casual players might not fully enjoy this as much as I did. The hint system is not really very helpful and I honestly doubt you can just put the game down and pick it back up easily. I could be wrong and hope to be because I really enjoyed this game more than I expected to.

I would have liked to use actual touch controls in handheld mode instead of using a cursor style, but that is a personal preference.

In conclusion, My Rabbit Brother is the adventure you never knew you were missing out on. I loved it and I can not stress enough how gorgeous this game really is.

8.5/10

Tested on Nintendo Switch