PALETTE TOWN

Each region of Chicory’s world is colour coded. You’re armed with a selection of four paints at a time, locked to your location, which helps lend each place a distinct character: a forest of autumnal oranges, the steely blues of the big city, an underground cave done up like a blacklight poster. And it’s not just your character who roams between these places. Seeing familiar faces again in a new setting, you can immediately tell where they’re from, because they bring a splash of local colour that might look out of place. You can then choose whether to repaint them in your current palette, sending them home with something of a souvenir. It all adds up to one of the most quietly evocative expressions of travel we’ve seen since Signs Of The Sojourner.