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Echo: The Oracle’s Scroll is a must-play combatless metroidvania for Playdate

Echo: The Oracle's scroll is a new Playdate game from developer bumbleborn.

But over the past few months, I’ve spent hours solving puzzles and exploring surprisingly large maps in games with real substance. Created by developer bumbleborn, Echo: The Oracle’s Scroll is a metroidvania, but don’t let that scare you off if combat isn’t your thing; it’s non-violent, putting the emphasis instead on tricky platforming, puzzles and finding your way around sprawling caverns. It’s a world that holds a lot of secrets, and you’ll have to interact with certain elements of the environment in unexpected ways in order to move forward or access seemingly inaccessible items.

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