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Learning how to spot typical perspective tricks in the environment that mask secret passageways, using just one new trick to open up new swaths of the map, parsing apart the function of in-game items – it has a lot more trial and error than simple and intuitive understanding, and while that seems like it would be frustrating (and it admittedly is on occasion) it makes for a fresh and inventive experience. Games – especially in the mainstream – have moved more and more towards sheer convenience as time has gone on, so to have one where obtuseness and disclarity isn’t merely a presence but in fact the main feature is intensely interesting and honestly fun.

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The very functions of the game aren’t known to you until you pick up pages of a manual strewn about the overworld – and those pages themselves require much scrutiny to parse apart, turning essentially every aspect of the game into a puzzle. Tunic’s main conceit is that the central language of the world is spoken and written in arcane symbols, interspersed with only the occasional bit of English. In fact, basically all information in the game is dished out this way. This simple premise is delivered almost entirely without words. From that simple beginning, the fox discovers a bigger creature (“The Heir”) imprisoned within a metaphysical jail, journeying to break them out. Tunic is the story of a little fox who wakes up on a beach.

But to simply call it a Zelda-like (or worse, a clone) is to diminish the wholly exclusive qualities this very interesting little indie title possesses, expanding the nature of overworld puzzling to encompass its entire nature in a truly unique way. The exploratory puzzle-heavy action adventure game very transparently wears its inspiration on its sleeve. If there exists a review of the game on the internet that somehow does not mention The Legend of Zelda, then the reviewer has either issued a challenge to themself or has just seen daylight for the first time after years spent living under a rock. Tunic – designed by Andrew Shouldice and published by Finji – will, with a glance at its sword and red/blue shield wielding protagonist in the eponymous green tunic, bring a certain Nintendo franchise to mind immediately. But in hastening to simply describe games based on other ones they remind us of, we run the risk of overlooking their individuality and failing to consider them on their own merits. If you can’t fit a game into any one box, just smash on some prefixes or compounds til you’ve got an action-strategy real-time RPG.

Even first person shooters were once upon a time simply called “DOOM Clones.” The reasoning for this shorthand is pretty simple – it makes it quicker to explain the essence of a game so that someone can determine if they’d like it or not, while also allowing for comparisons within the genre.

The world of games criticism (and even casual discussion of the medium) is filled with “-likes.” Roguelikes, Soulslikes… we call Metroidvanias Metroidvanias because we had two examples to pick from instead of just one.

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