Within the woods, you’re not completely alone as there are a couple of beasts out to get you with the game’s inclusion of a large wolf and bear which provide the chase sequences. The game as a whole felt incredibly rushed and more like a university project or demo rather than a complete game. Often I would get stuck or move through the ground at an awkward angle – I even managed to avoid the final encounter altogether by hammering a couple of buttons and doing a super jump (which I have no idea if it’s a bug left in the game or an actual move I’m meant to be able to do). This isn’t helped by performance issues either. It, therefore, makes it all about trial and error rather than skill. These aren’t that challenging but more frustrating as you have to be pixel-perfect in your timing to avoid them as the little girl’s wooden character animations don’t always make it very clear where her jump will land.Ĭertain traps you can see coming from a mile off as you can see them nesting in the ground or you just expect a rickety bridge to have some slats that will fall, however, a few traps will suddenly appear almost out of the blue and kill you straight out. There are more technical traps such as rotating wheels with spikes on them and swinging spiked clubs that you have to time your jumps to avoid. As you travel through the wooded area you need to avoid traps, such as falling boulders, spike pits and collapsing bridges. The gameplay is very simplistic, involving you just running and jumping. There is literally only one instance of a musical score which is a rather sombre string-piece at the game’s title screen – I guess this is trying to set the scene of bleakness ahead of you. Therefore, you would expect some environmental storytelling or the use of music or colour to showcase emotion, as demonstrated incredibly well within the game Gris, however, this is non-existent in Fobia also. You would expect that having the game being called Fobia that the fears she is facing would be linked to popular phobias such as spiders and snakes or being trapped in dark places, however, the only noticeable fear I can conclude from this game is that the girl has a fear of being lost alone in the woods ( Xylophobia).Īgain, like Limbo and Inside, there is no story narration within Fobia. The premise is that you are a little girl having to face her fears and overcome obstacles in her path. It, therefore, has chase sequences, traps and puzzles but unfortunately, don’t go expecting anything new or ground-breaking for the genre. Developed by Tapteek, a two-person team, Fobia is a 2D puzzle platformer very reminiscent of games like Limbo and Inside.
Fobia is a first for me in that writing the review for the game has taken me longer than actually playing the game itself! It’s an incredibly short but not sweet experience.
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