Breakout indie metroidvania Animal Well is one of the best games I've played so far this year. It's also by far the smallest, clocking in at just 38MB, but its developer says they "didn't do anything particularly clever" to get the game down to that size,
In a recent AMA on Reddit, solo dev Billy Basso was asked whether he deliberately tried to keep the game's file size as small as possible, or whether that was simply a happy accident. Animal Well is, at its heart, a relatively simple 2D platformer, but in an era where game sizes have been ballooning, I don't remember coming across anything quite as small as this in a long time.
