In a year already bursting with killer Metroidvanias to sink into, Animal Well managed to tower over its competition and became the year’s second-best-reviewed game when it came out earlier this month. Now, as players are mopping up the minimalist world's last remaining secrets, the game's creator is turning his gaze toward an Animal Well follow-up, which may or may not be a proper sequel.
Animal Well takes players across a sparse, knotted world full of wildlife to unravel both one-and-done puzzles and mysteries that linger throughout the entire game. One of the game's most elaborate mysteries, the time capsule, was solved by dedicated players without datamining, a feat that creator Billy Basso found "extremely impressive" in his AMA on the Nintendo Switch subreddit. "They solved it legitimately way faster than I ever could have imagined."
