by Neal Ronaghan - February 26, 2021, 10:00 am EST
The developers of Creature in the Well are bringing a stylish and chill mech adventure game to Switch this summer.
I first heard about Stonefly—the next game from Creature in the Well developer Flight School Studios—in a summary paragraph inviting me to check out a guided preview of the game on Discord. It was described there as “a tranquil mech action-adventure game” and from that moment, I was incredibly interested in seeing more about what Stonefly was. It also helps that Creature in the Well was an incredibly neat game.
Then I saw what Stonefly actually is and well, I’m still on board. You control Annika Stonefly, an inventor from a small town who takes her dad’s prized mech for a joyride, loses it, and then must go on an adventure to find the family heirloom. Most of the gameplay takes place in an isometric perspective among leaves and branches as Annika pilots a bug-like mech. You’re generally looking for resources that funnel back into upgrading your mech. Some of them can be effortlessly collected whereas other resources are found when dealing with enemy bugs. Though some of those bugs aren’t necessarily aggressive; they just want their piece of the resource pie.