Dissolved: Chapter One (2022)

Developer: Absorb Reality
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch
Genres: Point-and-click, Fighting, Shooter, Puzzle, Sport, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Where to get it: Nintendo eShop

How it feels

A disorienting and challenging mix of mini-game styles that make you feel unsettled and absurdly amused as you weaponize strange mechanics against enemies.

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About

If there are feel-good games, well Dissolved is a feel-bad game. You play as a girl whose weird psychosis is to turn every ordeal in her life into a video game. It's a mix of completely new gameplays, fun and very challenging, parodying old arcade games. Each control scheme is very simple, often one or two buttons, but unsettling at first. How to fight space gopniks shooting from the sky if you can't shoot back? Well, simply strike through their projectiles until your reach them. And if you find yourself unarmed against armies of cops, you can always use their own dead bodies as projectiles.

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