Platformers are not exactly a genre known for their storytelling prowess, but Love Eternal, coming out this week on, I mean, basically any platform that you can imagine, is described as a psychological horror platformer.

It's trying to be different.

It's also one of the hardest platformers I played in a minute.

Really, really truly making me sweat it and also cheer and also scream, but like truly sweating it.

So why is Love Eternal putting so much effort into a story that players might not experience?

I had an opportunity to talk with Love Eternal

Designer Toby Alden in order to figure out, hey, part of the reason that platformers

tend to just be a little more straightforward or use storytelling or worlds as just a premise

to connect their levels, why are you doing a game with all these elaborate cutscenes and really dreamlike interesting

storytelling with very subversive gameplay twists related to that storytelling?

And if you aren't good at playing VVVVVV style flipping platformers, would you die all the

time?

You'll never see any of that.

I think it's an interesting question. We live in an age in which I think games are oftentimes for all the right reasons,

trying to hit the broadest possible audience. And that can mean anything from, hey, here are

tweaks you can do to the settings of the game, to have the game meet you where you are, to,

hey, these games are really

expensive and we want to make sure that anyone has a way into them. There's a lot of ways that games

are more, quote, accessible in lots of different ways. And so it's actually sort of unique when a game

says, you know what, partner, I'm all right if you can't play this. Maybe you can't hack it. Maybe you just

can't get to the other side of this story. So I, uh, you'll, you'll hear on Remap Radio this week.

I loved this game. I think Love Eternal is a 2026 great. It has one of the coolest sequences

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