Poncho review

Poncho puts you in the metal boots of a robot travelling across an environment with three layers of depth to rescue your father and save the world.

Indie games embrace disasters and calamities, using them as the setting or inspiration for their stories. Perhaps this acts as a metaphor for the development cycle where things can, and often do, go wrong. We’ve had games like Bastion and Transistor from Supergiant Games, Fez, and now Poncho draws upon this theme.

Poncho opens with a mysterious message from your father that the world has ended and that you need to rescue him to set things right. Armed with your ability to shift planes and a fashionable poncho, you set off for this red tower.