The Multiverse seems to be a popular term these days – suddenly games are popping up, movies going haywire, series about multiverses – are they trying to tell us something? Nevertheless, What Lies In The Multiverse is a unique game and an awe-inspiring one, for that matter. So let’s dive into the dimension jumping.
Multiverse Madness
The multiverse encompasses all possible worlds, a summation of everything that’s ever happened, is, or ever could happen. Charismatic scientist Everett claims he’s investigating a strange new world. But if that’s the case, why does he keep committing crimes? Who are the shadowy figures chasing him? And why does reality itself appear to be breaking down? Race to discover the secrets of the multiverse in a bleakly hilarious (and hilariously bleak) story where everything you know can turn on a dime.
What Lies in the Multiverse feels a bit what would happen if Steven Strange (you know, the doctor from Marvel) had been a little kid on his computer—finding out how to manipulate time and discover the multiverse through extensive simulation. The result is a game about worlds turned inside out. It’s time to harness the power of parallel universes to alter reality in mid-air, turning pitfalls into bridges, walls into tunnels, and foes into friends, in a bombastic puzzle-platformer filled with hijinks and chaos.
What Lies In The Multiverse
The whole game is about jumping between worlds to solve puzzles, find clues, and discover what happens with the lovely people you just helped in the other dimension. Spoiler alert, you don’t want to know, trust me. But, the jumping between worlds is on point. It takes a lot of practice and timing to solve certain jump puzzles that the game throws at you. Combine this with a tremendous pixelated art style, and you got yourself a great game. It offers everything you might seek in a multidimensional puzzle-platformer. Using the quirks to your advantage goes beyond games like Super Meat Boy that focus on hyper platforming and provides a deeper meaning to what a true puzzle platformer is about.
Conclusion
So, to conclude. If you are into pixel-platformer hijinx with a touch of multiverse madness, What Lies In The Multiverse might be right up your alley (or dimension, depending on where you’re reading this). I applaud the developers for creating this from scratch and ask other developers to take note – this is how you handle puzzle-platforming madness. And I can’t even find the right words to describe the gameplay since it’s pretty unique. Try this one if you dare.
