This ensures that you always know how much more there is to discover, whether it’s new creatures to encounter, puzzles to solve, or balls of energy to collect. You can open a mini-map at any time to see the direction of collectibles and balls of energy, as well as a percentage counter for the current area. They get larger and fuller as the game progresses. Omno has a set of small open sandboxes for you to explore. The pull of completion is what will keep you going until you’ve finished. Once that’s complete, you can head to the gate and ride an increasingly exotic range of creatures to the next biome. You need to finish three to collect three balls of energy and unlock the final puzzle in the biome. Each biome has a set of puzzles for you to complete. From there, you’re taught to use your staff to interact with symbols in the world, along with an abundance of native wildlife. The game starts out with the protagonist waking up in a swampy area of an unknown world. Sure, players can spend a while working out the mysteries of the world, but the gameplay is so engrossing and provides such a great sense of progression that you don’t need to have that lore if you don’t want it. However, the lack of story works for it in the same way that it works for Dark Souls. There are notes you’ll find along your way through each biome, but it’s up to you to make sense of it all and come to your own conclusions as to what’s going on and why the protagonist is traveling ever forward. Omno doesn’t have much of a story to speak of. The atmosphere really is the story of this world. That’s what Omno does with platformer puzzle games. Just when you think everything that could possibly have been done with a genre has been, someone else will come along to shake it up and show you how wrong you are. A game doesn’t have to be the biggest technical achievement in the world to impress and attract a huge fan base, but it does need to stand out. Year after year, we’re spoilt by indie developers who push the envelope even further than seems possible.
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