Backbone
Developer: Raw Fury
Type of game: Pixel art noir detective story
Kotaku | Kritic
You can practically smell the plumes of cigarette smoke, watered-down alcohol, and non-descript barn animal musk radiating off of Backbone ’s film noir box art. Despite being stoic in their own right, the shadows that dance across the faces of these anthropomorphic animals breathe a familiar air of mystery and doggone tiredness that comes with living in a crime-filled world wrought with animal-on-animal discrimination. Stare at this long enough and you’ll see the art piece look back into you like the giant disembodied blue eyes of the TJ Eckleberg advertisement in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby . Although it was technically released in 2021 on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation, it also came out this year on Nintendo Switch, so it makes the cut.
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