Hylics

Hylics plays like a traditional JRPG despite its surreal setting. Hit points are replaced with "flesh", while magic points are replaced with "will". Battles are shown from a first-person perspective, with the character's hands being shown performing attacks. Wayne loses all his flesh when defeated, but does not die, rather warping to an "afterlife" from which he and his party members can travel back to a previous area.

Battle items are also unusual, such as being able to attack with a frozen burrito. Special attacks, referred to as Gestures, can be learned from TVs found throughout the game.

Hylics takes place on an archipelago in a world implied to be posthuman and is divided into 3 acts, each one beginning with a prelude roughly describing the current plot events using partially randomly generated sentences. The primary goal of the game is to defeat Gibby, King of the Moon. Many of the game's NPCs speak using random text generation, with the player's goals primarily represented through environmental design. It is implied that Gibby is responsible for the incoherent dialogue found throughout the game.

Act I begins in the house of the player character, Wayne. Nearby Wayne's house is a town and a facility for warping to another dimension. Exploring the town and its adjacent mountain reaches an area filled with ruins populated by Cone Cultists, who forbid anything from leaving the mountain to "promote a reverse-erosion". Wayne finds an archaeologist named Dedusmuln who is searching for a paper cup to be used with a water cooler.

The game was developed using the RPG Maker VX Ace engine and took a year to develop.

Hylics has received positive reviews. Emily Gera of Rock Paper Shotgun described the game as "like a scene from Bosch by way of Videodrome". Alice O'Connor of the same site called it "silly and funny and occasionally gruesome". Chris Priestman of Kill Screen called the game's animation "wonderful" and stated that "to play a Mason Lindroth game is to delight in all that is possible within the material world and to learn how wonderful creation and destruction can be."

Heather Alexandrea of Kotaku Australia felt the game was "about feeling lost in a strange world before finding familiarity and purpose". Jordan Devore of Destructoid said Hylics was "the trippiest RPG [he'd] ever seen", calling it "bonkers".