#ROKI VIDEO GAME MAC#

His age and courage will strike creatures often considered hostile like the trolls, who will hint at a change in diet, or reticent beings like the guardians of the forest, far from the canonical jötnar. The choice of the young protagonist is not accidental starting from the name, taken from the Finnish writer Tove Jansson. Tove will soon realize that the forest is populated by fantastic beings and her innocence will allow her to make new friends, helping various creatures on her path by obtaining objects or information in return useful to save her little brother. They can also be combined to create new ones, such as a torch or a bridge, to unlock new areas. Most of these objects can then be taken and used by dragging them with the cursor with the environment. The heroine carries a backpack (inventory) with her and can interact with objects that light up by simply pressing a button. It will be he who will pay the price and be kidnapped: this will launch the brave sister to his rescue.Ĭontroller or mouse in hand, Röki presents itself as a modern and exploratory point and click its main elements are precisely exploration and puzzles.

Now Tove is the housewife, and like a good older sister she pleases Lars by reading him a fairy tale.Ī sudden attack from a creature Tove didn't believe existed will upset this daily numbness that only little Lars doesn't seem to feel. The father does nothing but sleep in a rocking chair, it will soon be understood that he has lost the will to live since his wife died, and sleeps in the hope of seeing her again in dreams.

It is up to Tove, the protagonist of the game, to do the chores: prepare food, add wood to the stove, send her brother into Morpheus' arms. Tove and her little brother Lars just got home. It is a cold night, as is often the case in the forest. Röki is based precisely on an original tale inspired by Scandinavian folklore in which the protagonists are the jötnar, the giants, but with a depth that is difficult to find in the pages of a story book.

Did it also pique your interest?Īlex Kanaris-Sotiriou and Tom Jones - the two founders of Polygon Treehouse and the minds behind Röki - played for years at Sony and Guerrilla Games before betting on their small development house and betting everything on a modern adventure that looks to the past. Röki talks about adventure, courage and folklore, and about a girl who tries to pick up the pieces of a family devastated by mourning. Titles such as Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and the reboot of God of War draw heavily from this infinite source and this is also the case with Röki, the latest effort by Polygon Treehouse. Among trolls, mermaids and goblins, there is no doubt that the Northern European imaginary still exercises a certain charm today and that it has inspired a literary genre (modern fantasy) and other arts, including video games. The fairy tales and legends that exude from the Scandinavian tradition they have been told for centuries around the hearth of the long winter evenings and have come down to the present day in writing to keep the embers of those nights alive.

#ROKI VIDEO GAME MAC#

Game for PC, Mac and Nintendo Switch, the video game was released on

Roki video game