Review: Concrete Genie (Sony PlayStation 4)

Review by Harvard L.

Having recently announced that its company would be focusing less on the indie space to double down on its support of triple-A development, it’s easy to imagine that Concrete Genie as one of the last creative games to receive Sony’s support. Sony’s various subsidiaries had originally helped multiple indie studios bring their ideas to life, letting the world experience games like The Unfinished Swan, Hohokum and Bound. Each explored its own unique niche, art style and gameplay mechanics, and were all in their own way great examples of small-scale development which contrasts against Sony’s blockbuster publishing arm. The PlayStation 4 needed to have mass market appeal after all; colourful, artsy games helped add a family appeal and hook in people not enamored by those big open world shooters.

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