Echo-9

needs your phone going as well as the laptop, which sounds annoying and mostly isn't. Weird. Quite good. Over quickly.

Let's be blunt about the cost: you need a second device, and that is what will stop most people at the door. Get through it and the split is genuinely clever, with the phone acting as briefing and sensor rather than a gimmick bolted on the side. The sitting is short (the setup is not). Recommended if you'll do the setup, and honestly not if you won't.

Post apocalyptic Hanoi, the grid down, thousands of scooters still moving through it anyway. i haven't seen a game reach for that image before. Delivery work on foot is a smart frame as well, since it gives you a plain reason to be out in the middle of all of it. The 1991 cinematic platformer this descends from let atmosphere do the explaining, and the same instinct is here in 3D.

Two devices is a big ask and it just about earns it. Having the briefing on your phone while you dodge scooters on the monitor really does change how you play. Post-apocalyptic Hanoi is well realised. Start it when you have ten minutes free, not two.