When you first start using them you’ll notice that it does open up a portal to another world, but instead of jumping through it, the portal kind of changes your surroundings for a certain radius from where you opened it. Unbound is a Metroidvania puzzle-platformer where the main mechanic is the aforementioned portals. Eventually you’ll open up the path to the world of Umberra, home of the Demon King who’s causing the corruption, in an attempt to end the corruption once and for all. Again, typical.

You’ll run across other mages who’ll give you some advice or task you with finding various shards to unlock the next area you need to go to. These portals don’t necessarily teleport you from one point to another, but rather you open up a small portal to another world which alters your surroundings. But while Soli may be small he’s pretty adept at using portals. You play as Soli, a small mage from the world of Vaiya which is falling apart due to an evil force. Trust me, it’ll make more sense as we look closer. Rather, these portals take part of your current world and open up another world on top of it. Unbound: Worlds Apart takes the Metroidvania formula and mixes in portals…though not quite the kind that lets you jump from one place to another in an instant. There’s just something about the exploration of a wide-open area, reaching a dead end, and then finding a new item or power that lets you progress past that prior roadblock that keeps me coming back to new games in the genre. I’ve even reviewed a few on here in the past. I’ve been enjoying Metroidvania-style games for a long time.

Unbound worlds