Olija review – exquisite throwback to early-90s adventure games

PC, Nintendo Switch; Skeleton Crew Studio/Devolver Digital
With fast and fun fighting, a swashbuckling Lord Faraday explores a ruined archipelago where he has been shipwreckedSometimes you can tell when a game is a labour of love. Olija is a one-person project by Japan-resident developer Thomas Olsson, a strange and gratifying throwback to the kind of enigmatic, pixellated early-90s adventure games that you might have found on the school computer. With its ambiguous lo-fi art direction, minimali