![]() Cococucumber have mastered the art of contrast and colour, delivering environments that glow. ![]() And we do mean Beautiful with a capital B. This all takes the form of some simple hack-and-slashery against a beautiful backdrop. Her and your task is to explore the surrounding area to find three emblems which will unlock the queen’s gate and give you a shot at the crown. So the White Rabbit introduces her to a few friends to get a shield and sword, then effectively kicks her out the door. ![]() Luckily for Wonderland and Ravenlok, there is an ancient prophecy that mentions a girl with black hair who will defeat the queen. Following a spit and a polish, it drags her into Wonderland, where a tyrannical queen has holed up in a castle and left the rest of the world to rot. She’s barely settled in before she is exploring the barn, finding a Looking Glass that belonged to her late aunt (presumably Alice). Ravenlok is a young girl who moves to a small ranch with her family. Think of it as a Return to Oz-style revisit. This is absolutely not a one-to-one adaptation of the novel. Then Tweedledum and Tweedledee or the White Rabbit would turn up, and we’d get a wee reminder of where we were. It’s layered on so thinly that we often forgot we were playing a Wonderland game. You can expect jabberwockies, caterpillars and Cheshire Cats out the wazoo. ![]() ![]() Most developers, when they decide to set their game in Wonderland, lay the IP on thick. They’re used sparingly a few LEGO bricks in a more fully realised world. Even then, Ravenlok feels like a game that’s tip-toeing away from voxel art. Although we would say ‘trilogy’ is using a pretty loose definition, as the only thing that truly connects them is the use of voxels. They’ve arrived with Ravenlok, which is a lot of things: it’s an Alice in Wonderland game, an Xbox exclusive, a Game Pass day-one addition, and the third in a trilogy with Echo Generation and Riverbond. ![]()
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