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Maquette is a beautiful puzzler where small changes have massive consequencesBig trouble, little town
Big trouble, little town
A maquette, Wikipedia tells me, is a “scale model or rough draft of an unfinished sculpture”.Maquetteis also a beautiful new game from Graceful Decay and publishers Annapurna. Fittingly, those two definitions aren’t as separate as they might seem. Releasing sometime later this year,Maquetteis a recursive first-person puzzle box about models within models, where small-scale adjustments can have a massive impact on the world at large.
If you have to be trapped in a nightmare landscape of worlds-within-worlds-within-worlds, those worlds should, at the very leas, be nice to look at. Oh, they are? Marvelous!
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Like last year’sSuperliminal, Maquette hails from that particular vintage of indie games arriving the wake ofPortal 2that were really, really into perspective-based puzzling. There’s even some crunchy, low-framerate footage of it fromGDC’s Experimental Gameplay Sessionsback in 2011 (it’s the first game in the line-up - scrub to 4:00 for Maquette).
I’m not really taken with what I’m seeing of the story, either. Well, hearing, at least. While you’re prancing around these beautiful toy-like environments, disembodied Millenials are flirting in a coffee shop and talking about starting a book club. Oh, the fantastical escapism of games!
Maybe that’s being harsh. Fortunately, Maquette has plenty of time to win me over. Graceful Decay haven’t yet listed a release date, but it’ll likely hitSteamsometime this year.
