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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/28/2020
“Even the Ocean” is the second game by the dynamic duo at Indie studio, Analgesic Productions, whose first game, “Anodyne,” blew me away in 2013. Three years later, in 2016, “Even the Ocean” launched with little-to-no fanfare (Steam estimates it had roughly 1/10 the sales that “Anodyne” did). I was interested in playing it solely based on the excellence of “Anodyne,” but due to my self-imposed rules on the ‘correct’ way to shop for games and Analgesic’s stubborn refusal to attach a large-percentage discount to it, I didn’t end up buying “Even the Ocean” until midway through 2019, at which point it was already 3 years old. A lot can happen in six years.
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“Even the Ocean” is a 16-bit styled side-scrolling 2D platformer assembled in the …