Switched on

Given the studio’s ties with Nintendo, Sigurgeirsson is hardly likely to speak badly of Switch, but he is unfakeably enthusiastic about the platform during our conversation. “Have you tried the Pro Controller?” he asks us. “I think it’s just splendid. That’s going to be my controller of choice now, I think. I can use it for playing Steam games, too!” He’s equally ebullient about the Joy-Con’s HD Rumble, though he’s mindful that a little will go a long way in SteamWorld

Dig 2. “You’ll be chipping through many thousands of blocks, so it could become the oldest feeling in the world. It’s like tinnitus if you have it the whole time, so we have to constrain ourselves. But when you do feel it, it’s very tasty.”