Baldur’s Gate 3. Dragon’s Dogma 2. Starfield. These are but three of hundreds of sprawling videogame worlds that have released in the past year. The meteoric, Amazon Prime-fueled rise of Fallout has brought expansive open-world experiences back into the limelight again, and the upcoming launch of WoW The War Within and FF14 Dawntrail mean that much of my 2024 is going to be spent on the move. But Awaken – Astral Blade is an indie platformer that plans to cut down on all of the travel faff, and that’s what makes it so appealing.

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