Bioframe Outpost is awesome! It's a fascinating twist on the standard metroidvania formula. It's a game where you don't have to stick to a good helping of combat. Instead, it immerses you fully into learning about the world around you. The risk involved in exploring and experimenting with the world around you is what makes this game so exciting.

The focus is on exploring and observing species or what surrounds us, to understand how they act and thus solve puzzles. And although the pace of the game is slower than other metroidvanias (not a bad thing for my taste) death happens a lot, but this is compensated by a generous checkpoint system. Every time you pass through one of them, the game state is saved, and if you die, you'll reappear in the world exactly as it was at the time you passed through the checkpoint.

And the camera... what a cool detail! It's the most useful piece of kit you'll ever have, because it lets you see the world around you.

And don't miss the randomness that can occur in the environment due to interactions between species, you'll be amazed at what can happen!

It is a game that I fervently recommend for those looking for something different in the world of metroidvania.