Release Date: October 27, 2020
Carto is an exploration-oriented adventure game with puzzle elements, in which we explore a world composed of various biomes, encountering a number of characters and special events along the way. Sunhead Games studio is responsible for the game.
Carto is a fairytale game in which a little girl travels the world by manoeuvring the tiles. The game was created by Sunhead Games studio, and its release is the responsibility of Humble Games, known from such titles as Forager, TemTem or Void Bastards.
In the game we play Carto, a girl who is looking for a way home and has a unique ability to move the tiles of the terrain so that she can get to places that are not normally accessible. During our journey we travel through various biomes that differ not only in appearance, but in the characters and culture that inhabit them. And so ahead of us is a journey through forests, deserts, meadows, swamps and so on.
Carto also encounters a number of NPCs on his way; most of them need help, in return for which they share a clue as to where to go further to get home.
Carto is a two-dimensional adventure game observed from top-down view, which is full of puzzle elements related to the unique power of the heroine. It consists in the fact that at any time we can enter the screen with a map of the terrain divided into square tiles; often on one tile there are different biomes adjacent to each other, like on the chips from the famous Carcassonne board game. Being on the map screen, we can freely rotate and move the tile on which the heroine is placed, transporting her to another part of the world. The only requirement is that the biomes marked on it must match the place we see: the forest must be in contact with the forest, water with water, etc. At the beginning these puzzles are simple, the more you get into it, the more complicated combinations await us.
The game is distinguished by its fairy-tale and unique graphic design combining the style known from contemporary illustrations addressed to younger audiences, as well as the aesthetics typical of Tove Jannson, which you can mainly associate with its cult series about the adventures of the Moomins.
Platforms:
PC Windows
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Nintendo Switch
Developer: Sunhead Games
Publisher: Humble Games
Age restrictions: none
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Use a unique tile-shifting mechanic to explore the beautifully hand-drawn world of Carto when it releases on the Switch this October.
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Matt Buckley
September 11, 2020
System Requirements for Carto Video Game:
PC / Windows
Minimum System Requirements:
Dual Core 2.0 GHz, 4 GB RAM, graphic card 768 MB GeForce 9600 GS / 1 GB Radeon HD 5670 or better, 2 GB HDD, Windows 7 SP1.
Game Ratings for Carto Video Game.
Nindie Spotlight: 9 / 10 by Justin Nation
Having played so many of them, unfortunately the first thing I assume I’ll see when approaching any sort of puzzle game is that it will be something I’ve seen before...
Push Square: 7 / 10 by Stephen Tailby
A real strength of Carto is its cast of NPCs, written with real warmth and charm. The world they inhabit is also surprisingly well fleshed out, even though you can breeze through it in six or seven hours. This is a puzzle game, but it also tells a sweet, worthwhile tale about tradition and companionship. Combined with lovely visuals and chilled out music, this is a refreshing, relaxing game that's worth marking on your map.
PlayStation LifeStyle: 8 / 10 by Jenny Jones
Much of the fun in Carto is that you never know what new things you'll discover next. It's a real joy to find new map pieces and see what new areas you can explore, as well as the new characters that you'll get to meet next. This is a super chilled out puzzle game and quite possibly one of the most relaxed and wholesome adventures that you'll have this year.
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![[1:20] launch trailer](https://cdn.gracza.pl/galeria/filmy/640x360/92448375.jpg)
