ANIMAL WELL

About This Game

Hatch from your flower and spelunk through the beautiful and sometimes haunting world of Animal Well, a pixelated wonder rendered in intricate audio and visual detail. Encounter lively creatures small and large, helpful and ominous as you discover unconventional upgrades and unravel the well’s secrets. This is a truly unique experience that can make you laugh in fear, surprise, or delight.

• Dense atmospheric puzzle box world with tons of secrets
• Light candles for safety and gradually fill out your map
• Nonlinear — explore and collect items in whatever order you choose

• Enemies, environment, and items interact in surprising and systemic ways
• All items have multiple uses
• Learn how innocuous details can become meaningful
• The main game is just the beginning. Players will be discovering hidden puzzles for years

• Assess for yourself what is safe and dangerous
• Focus on tension and suspense rather than action
• You are disempowered, but can make clever use of your environment and items

Reviews

“Animal Well is a delightfully odd 2D platformer that flips the traditional metroidvania on its head.”
IGN

“A Metroidvania aiming to stand alongside modern classics”
EDGE

“I could easily see this being a cult classic — if not a game of the year contender”
NME