After a visit to the psychologist that went horribly wrong, you're trapped in the mind of a game developer on the brink of physical and emotional burnout during the last stages of an intense project. Experience a metroidvania drenched in anxiety based on a very true story.

Help Fletcher Howie Jr. escape his mental prison and save the day!

During a visit to a psychiatrist you enter into a dream state. You wake up naked – 16 bit inspired naked anyway. It's a whimsical adventure about escaping your own mental prison whilst it had funny moments it's neither hilarious or deep enough to leave a truly lasting mark with the story. There's a few breaking the 4th wall jokes about being in a game and being a game developer which is the main protagonists real world job however it's a little shallow.

The Prisoning Fletcher's Quest stands out mainly with it's gameplay. The game has smooth controls and challenging map traversal it's very reminiscent of games from the late 80's and early 90's. You have a cowboy hat that acts as a shield when that's gone you die and have to re start at the checkpoint again. Initially it's quite difficult, for me that's part of the charm of metroidvania's. The difficult to master gameplay is the drug that makes me play again and again until I just don't die and get good!

The game plays out mainly as a fetch and grab quest with 4 boss battles. It's short and tough but not too tough either. My play through was around 6 hours long which makes it not too taking with the fetch and grab quests. There are a few wonderful segments where the playstyle is different, it's not just platforming. These were a nice little break in the gameplay loop and reminded me of Cuphead's approach to numerous playstyles.

One in the chamber... well kind of – one of the main gameplay strengths is that you can only have 1 active bullet on the screen at one time. This does increase to 4 bullets by the end of the game however it keeps the bosses and room challenging without feeling impossible.

Pixel Art at it's best even when you're in the buff! The art style is great and executed really well, I enjoy most 16 bit style games but this is really well done.

The biomes and screens are well designed. You navigate through rooms, the rooms are often straight forwards with one entrance and one exit but sometimes there are branching paths with secrets to discover. The game claimed to have randomly generated rooms when you restart the game but playing it on the Switch I didn't experience this feature as I didn't close the game during my playthrough.

Musically I feel it's Ok, its not terrible but it's also a little repetitive at times. You do find some hidden records through the game. There's also a juke box to choose which of these records to play but they only play whilst you're in that room which is a shame.

The sound effects are good and act as audio cues to boss and enemy attacks. At points this is subtle but well done.

Price wise it's not a bad price point for a game of this quality and length, grabbing it in the sale for under £10 would be a great price point though.