New Indie Adventure Game ReleaseNew Indie Adventure Game Release

Author: La Revria Studio

Released February 2, 2022 on Steam, Essence Of The Tjikko brings the style of 2000s adventure games to life.
Developed by a former Ubisoft artist in less than a year, this game is ready to stand out on the indie scene thanks to its atypical and retro visual style, and challenging gameplay in its puzzles.
  Pitch
In a world where plants and technology are one, a child plant hybrid wakes up at the bottom of an abandoned botanical laboratory.


Driven by the instinct to find the light of the sun, he begins the journey that will make him grow, and will discover the secrets that hide under the roots of the great Tjikko.
  Characteristics
View: 3rd person
Platform: Windows
Genres: Adventure Puzzle
Game Engine: UE4
Playing time: about 2 hours for the prologue
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDAP4NNu6Wg
  Game Design
This is an adventure game in which the main character can interact with nature because he is part of it: he can sense the connections between plants and technology thanks to his 3rd Eye (to see secrets hidden in the environment) and use certain plant-tools (like objects in the Zelda series, such as the slingshot). These abilities will consume the hero's ether, his energy, which will gradually regenerate.
  To improve his abilities, the player can collect fruits that will maximize his regeneration, but also modify his state (his temperature and his humidity), and temporarily modify the statistics of the hero (like his speed and his jumps).

On the adventure side, the course is designed to give the player several ways to progress: there are several solutions per puzzle, the branches and detours allow you to fall back on the main path. This balance between the player's freedom and his piloting, coupled with the passive narration of the scenery, lets the player discover the game at his own pace. He will be able to test his intelligence, make his interpretation of the story, and live an adventure of his own.
  Synopsis
In forgotten times, a civilization took refuge under the roots of the great tree of life, the Tjikko, to escape the invasion of miasma.

They attempted to replicate the world they had known underground, but without sunlight their population eventually withered away. All except one member, preserved in the sap of a forbidden meta-botanical experiment, a child, hybridized with the plant, but with no memory of its origins.


Then begins his journey, driven by his plant instinct to find sunlight, and accompanied by a strange dragonfly hummingbird.