Unravel 2016

Released: February 9, 2016
Anniversary: Turned 10 on February 9
Genres: Platform · Puzzle · Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4 · PC · Xbox One
Developer: ColdWood Interactive
Publisher: Electronic Arts
More info: Wikipedia IGDB

Where to buy

Digital: Steam Epic Games PlayStation Xbox
In a collection: Unravel: Yarny Bundle

Xbox

EA Family Bundle

Xbox
Physical: Search on Amazon

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Is it still worth playing?

Yarny, the size of an apple and made of red yarn, unravels as he goes. It is a 2016 platformer for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC, made in a small town in the north of Sweden and shown at E3 2015 by its designer Martin Sahlin, who shook with nerves on stage. The thread behind Yarny is the rope he swings from, the bridge he ties between two points and the thing he pulls with, and also his limit, since too far from the last knot he runs out. You enter photographs placed around an old home, levels that carry a lifetime of memories, and the country is Sahlin's own, the landscape around Umeå, rendered in close up detail. The story is an old woman's memories, told without a word, and the yarn, he says, is love, so the creature unravels as he travels away from what he loves. The thread is still both the hero's tool and his limit, the same piece of string.