Fans of The Legend of Zelda have a new Switch 2 adventure to watch in Uncanyon, a 2027 game built around exploration, elaborate puzzles, monsters, and reality-bending abilities. The Legend of Zelda has long blended exploration with environmental puzzle-solving and hidden discoveries, giving Uncanyon some immediately familiar ingredients despite being an entirely original adventure.
Uncanyon is being developed by Graceful Decay, the studio behind the perspective-bending puzzle game Maquette, with Annapurna Interactive handling publishing. Game Director Hanford Lemoore says the project grew from a simple question about what would happen if someone could enter an alternate reality without leaving the one they were already inhabiting. Graceful Decay has taken that idea and built an entire puzzle-first adventure around it, with the studio specifically looking to make traditional dungeon puzzles more elaborate than small obstacles separating other activities. To that end, temples and ruins instead contain traps, locks, and mechanical challenges designed to reward careful observation and experimentation.
Switch 2 is getting another cozy adventure this fall, with a new game based on a beloved storybook world officially joining the lineup.
In the game, players take control of Sonia, a stranger exploring a forgotten world created within...
