Ever stare out the window on a long drive and imagine a little person clambering around the letters and symbols on the roadside signs you’re passing by? The Pedestrian is a bit like that.
The Pedestrian needs you to guide a tiny person through some puzzling environments, all of which have been printed onto signs. Thing is, these puzzle pieces might not be in the right order or be connected properly, so you’ll need to shuffle the signs around and provide the right connections to help your character get through them safely. This might not seem too challenging at first, but expect to do a lot of sign shifting as the game goes on to find the correct escape route.
The presentation really adds to the fun of The Pedestrian, though. The clean line style of signs makes the game’s puzzles stand out, but it’s that you’re stumbling across them in various places that adds to their appeal. Seeing these signs swaying in the wind above a busy street, sticking to the side of a fence, or pinned to a piece of cork board in an office, captures that sense of daydreaming as you look around you, finding some secret, imaginary adventure in the normal, tedious world around you.
The game’s puzzles can get quite crafty, demanding a lot, but it’s that playful sense of hidden joy in dull places that makes them so pleasant to work through. And it’s also good that I’m not the only one who lets his mind wander like this on a long car ride.
The Pedestrian is available now on Steam.
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