Eat Girl is an anxious rework of a familiar labyrinth

Yes, okay, it’s a Pac-Man game. But there are more reasons why Eat Girl feels like a game out of time. Tesselode‘s latest is torn between two eras – deeply inspired by Namco’s arcade classic, sure, but equally so from the late-00s wave of strange browser games. It could easily be a forgotten gem of Terry Cavanagh‘s (of Dicey Dungeons fame), one particularly in conversation with his web platformer Don’t Look Back.

Like all the best curiosities on Itch.io, however, it does fulfil one expectation. It made me feel quite uneasy, in the best of ways.

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