Human: Fall Flat

Mechanics

While playing, we observe the action from the third-person perspective, and our task is to explore open locations and to solve subsequent puzzles by experimenting with objects in the environment. Everything is governed by the realistic physics engine that determines the way of protagonist’s movement as well as behavior of all items. The consequence of that is, among other things, an unusual controls model that requires a lot of practice to master because we control a quite inert character, which somewhat resembles the solutions from such productions as Gang Beasts. Its main advantage is the full freedom of movement as well as no scripts and limits whatsoever. It also allows the protagonist to interact with the environment in an incredibly big number of ways. He can pull up, climb, and grab various edges. All encountered items can be picked up, pushed, pulled, or thrown.

The gameplay is designed not to impose any specific way of doing things but to reward creativity and the ability to think outside the box. Thanks to this, the game can be replayed multiple times without the feeling of boredom, applying different ways of solving to the same problem.

Game modes

Apart from single player, Human: Fall Flat features a local cooperation mode for two players in which we can traverse the game world together and solve encountered problems together. Because of a large inertness of characters, co-op play creates opportunity for many funny or unusual situations.

Technical issues

Human: Fall Flat for PC, PS4 and etc. offers nice although quite simple graphics. All objects were built from a small number of polygons, while the protagonist looks as if he is made of plasticine. What’s interesting, it is possible to customize him, for example, by importing textures from real world via a webcam.