Gravity Bone is a game free to download. Just click here.
And be amazed.
The time you spend playing Gravity Bone is very little, but it is a very memorable game.
You play as Citizen Abel, an agent for the company Teletran Seven. As you play you come across your objectives. The game is played in first person and works much like any other first person game. Mouse controls the camera and wasd controls movement.
The game's visual aesthetic is simple and effective: cubic. Aside from a few objects, the game is rectangles. People are rectangles, floors are rectangles, rectangles.
You could say that everything about Gravity Bone is simple in nature, and you'd be correct. Everything down to the mechanics, the visual style and the execution is simple and effective. This is Gravity Bone's strongest suit, its simplicity makes it almost... perfect. There is little-to-nothing that Gravity Bone needs. It is already a perfect, complete package.
Much like the Hitman games, each mission starts with an objective you must accomplish. You are given a set of tools to do so and proceed to execute your mission. Using clever espionage and deft platforming, you work your way to complete each task. The game proceeds at a very fast pace, with missions being completed faster than one may be used to. But this is expected because, well, Gravity Bone is a complete video game... in just 15 minutes.
Around the end of Gravity Bone you experience a new dilemma that changes the name of the game entirely. A story element suddenly comes to play and as you pursue this new rogue element the game reaches a climax and comes to a complete, full closure.
And when I say full closure, I mean it. Gravity Bone has a strange nature about it. When you have finished playing it... you have finished playing it. You have beaten the game. You have played Gravity Bone.
It's hard to describe, but after completing this 15 minute game, I felt as if I had just played a complete, full videogame. This may sound like a weird thing to say... but that's what it is. If you were to ask me which felt more satisfying after having been finished, Hitman or Gravity Bone, I wouldn't be able to answer.
Gravity Bone has everything you need in a videogame. It cuts out everything superfluous and has you play the role of Citizen Abel for 15 minutes, 15 wild minutes that you'll be glad you spent playing Gravity Bone.
