Creature in the Well adds pinball to a dungeon crawl

Nintendo’s Nindies showcase featured some big surprises, like Cuphead and Cadence of Hyrule. But after playing many of the featured games at a event hosted by Nintendo at the Game Developer’s Conference this week in San Francisco, I know that you should also be excited about the games that aren’t grabbing the headlines. Creature in the Well, which is coming out this summer for Switch and PC, is one of the best of them.

Creature in the Well is a top-down action game, kind of like Zelda or Bastion. But it has one major twist. You don’t use your weapons to hit enemies. Instead, you’re hitting projectiles and trying to ricochet them into objects that look a lot like those parts of a pinball machine that bounce your ball around.