Metrico looks, well, it looks like someone is trying to trick me into liking infographics by disguising them with a beautiful aesthetic, and hypnotizing tunes — I’m not falling for it. Okay, maybe I’m falling for it just a little bit, but who can blame Metrico, from Digital Dreams, looks absolutely stunning. The game is based on players manipulating infographics in real-time by moving the playable character, which is hard to articulate and visualize, but instantly clicks when seen.
For those who enjoy blasting away enemies to find presents for beached whales, seeing bears die multiple times over and over, going on dates with skeletons, playing with baby chicks in eerie farms, and comic books, then the latest Humble Monthly offerings will be quite pleasing indeed.
Warp Zoned writes:
"Graphic designers who spend their days translating statistical findings into a series of colorful bars and charts are working in the interesting new field of infographics. And if you’ve opened an Internet browser at all in the last five years, you’ve more than likely seen dozens of them.
Companies love infographics because they’re able to distill complex statistical studies down into an image that is easily shareable across Facebook and Twitter. Audiences love them because they provide easily digestible primers on subjects as frivolous as the many on-screen deaths of Sean Bean to serious societal problems like income inequality.
Dutch development studio Digital Dreams used this same philosophy to create Metrico, a puzzle platformer that was released for the Vita in 2014. The team expanded on their original concept, and launched Metrico+, a remake/sequel, for the Xbox One last month."
XBA says: A game that revolves around pie charts and graphs is a lot more interesting than you may think.
This is one of my most anticipated games. The puzzles look quite unique, and I absolutely love the the look of the game.