DOWN AND OUT

Explore a hole new world in FALLSTRUKTUR

- by Tom Sykes

We've had the climbing game bubble, with games like Beton Brutal, Lorn's Lure and Peaks of Yore, and now it's time for the inverse: games about falling, with style. Getting in on the ground floor - or is it the top floor? - of this new sub-sub-genre is the deviously slippery Fallstruktur, in which you have to hop down a hole filled in with bits and pieces of ruined, mysterious structures.

And falling is right, given how many times I slipped to my doom. The atmosphere is pure Dark Souls, specifically Dark Souls 2, which had a few memorable moments of tactically plunging down a big well, or a staircase of coffins. In fact, that coffin staircase is here as well, in what I presume is a nod to From's sequel. So we have