
A lot of the video games that I liked at Summer Game Fest are slowly beginning to make their means into the wider world past previews and demos. A Little to the Left is a kind of video games — and I couldn’t be extra jazzed to let you know about it.
A Little to the Left — ALTTL for brief — is a kind of quiet and peaceable indie video games that conceal complicated design behind a deceptively easy premise. In it, you’re tasked with setting proper your house after the entropy of life (and a really mischievous cat) have mucked it up. To try this, you restore, substitute, and reorder family objects in a collection of bite-sized puzzles.
In one puzzle, you might need a scattered array of damaged pottery items that you should order accurately to restore a damaged vase. In…