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Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Puzzle, Simulator, Adventure, Indie
OpenCritic85IGDB92
Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.
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Formally daring, knowing, plot-driven and cryptic.
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DestructoidLaura Kate DaleJan 20169.5/10Pony Island messes with players in unexpected ways that stuck with me for days. It took a number of unexpected turns that caught me off guard and was constantly filling me with a sense of inescapable unease. It wasn't on my radar at all before it released, but at under $5 it's a wonderful use of two hours of your life.
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PC GamerAngus MorrisonJan 201691/100Sharp, multilayered satire that remembers to be a game even as it makes fun of us for playing.
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IGNCam SheaJan 20169/10I greatly enjoyed the two or so hours it took me to play through Pony Island. This is a game that delights in toying with your expectations and in breaking the fourth wall, in revealing its sinister yet playful world, and in building up a compelling antagonist and telling an ambiguous story. Pony Island is about as punk rock as they come.
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games(TM)Apr 20167/10Clever, unique, inventive but brief and repetitive
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Game InformerJeff MarchiafavaJan 20167.5/10Pony Island's action sequences are repetitive and unforgiving, but the bizarre narrative doles out intrigue and humor in equal parts
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IGDB rating 8.4/10 from 153 ratings.
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