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Biomorph is one the best of its genre, of 2024, and maybe all time

If only you could morph to the monsters

The protagonist of Biomorph, a strange almost insectoid creature, who has taken on a red aspect from an enemy they've killed
Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Lucid Dreams Studio

There are exactly one million metroidy rogueishy action platform games and that is okay. There's no such thing as too many of an entertaining thing in a world with, god I dunno, at least thousand humans in? Maybe more? Who knows.

They are rarely my thing, though. I try more than I really want to, for you, and games like Biomorph give me the energy to keep going through the many that leave me indifferent. This isn't one of my grudging admissions that a subgenre isn't all bad; it's a game that I can't even think of a way to complain about.

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