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Preview: Penarium

I’ll be honest with you: after a couple hours of checking out pixelated, indie offerings from Team17, my patience was wearing a little thin.

Then, Penarium leapt into my heart.

Billing itself as a “sadistic circus extravaganza,” the premise of Penarium seems pretty simple. You’re playing as a little sprite in a quirky one-screen side-scroller. Levels wrap around on themselves, meaning you can jump from platform to platform past the right edge of your screen, only to fly out from the left edge. With that in mind, you dodge hazards.

Think #IDARB levels of fun, only without the sports theme. And one player.

Penarium is a polished little game, offering quality voice overs, surprising amounts of humour and, most importantly, a tight (and short) little gameplay loop. As I progressed through training levels, the challenges got more difficult. Each failed attempt was met by a laugh… and then a mutter of, “just one more time. I’ve got this.”

In fact, I didn’t have it. But I kept trying regardless.

Penarium is definitely one to keep an eye on.


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Steve Wright

Steve's the owner of this very site and an active games journalist nearing twenty (TWENTY!?!) years. He's a Canadian-Australian gay gaming geek, ice hockey player and fan. Husband to Matt and cat dad to Wally and Quinn.