Animal Well is a great and shockingly tiny video game

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Animal Well. Screenshot: Billy Basso, Bigmode.

“I just remember this time when I was younger, when games felt magical and  unknowable,” game developer Billy Basso told me back in March, two months before the game he developed solo, Animal Well, became one of the top-selling games on Steam and one of the best-reviewed games of the year.

“I just want to recreate that experience for a modern audience.”

Animal Well, an exploration game that I will describe as little as possible so that you may enjoy it the most, launched yesterday.

It accomplishes Basso’s mission, and It might be the best game of the year. 

It’s also one of the smallest. A note about that: