Supraland

In Supraland, the player controls a toy figurine who has come to life. The prince of a kingdom populated by "red people", the player character is tasked with uncovering why his people's water supply has been tampered with by "blue people" from a neighbouring kingdom. Played from a first-person perspective, the entirety of Supraland's levels are set within a child's sandbox, with each area segregated by a theme. The gameplay of Supraland, primarily inspired by the conventions and mechanics of the Metroidvania subgenre, also blends disparate elements from multiple genres like puzzle video games, point-and-click games, and first-person shooter games.

Players are not provided with a map to navigate the in-game world: instead, large objects in the distant horizon provide visual cues for navigation. They serve as landmarks for players to orient themselves and deduce the appropriate direction to travel in order to reach their objective.

Supraland is set within a child's sandbox, where tiny playdough figurine civilizations, the Red and Blue People, live separately and in conflict. At the center of local legend is a mysterious figure named Mr. Miracle, whose true color is debated by both sides.

When Red Town's water supply runs dry. Under orders from his father, King Pavo, the Red Prince sets out to investigate. Armed with a basic sword, he discovers that the neighboring Blue Ville has tampered with the water pipes. Surprised and confused, Pavo sends the Prince and his mother Fanny to Blue Ville to speak with its ruler, King Paul.

Supraland was developed by Supra Games founder, German video game developer David Münnich, across 16 months. Supra Games previously developed Supraball, a free-to-play multiplayer sports game based on an early 2000s' mod for the video game Unreal Tournament, which features a similar cartoon graphic aesthetic.

Münnich's initial idea for Supraland was to create a first-person action-adventure game. At the preliminary stage of his research, Münnich played his favourite video games and made a shortlist of every gameplay element he liked, before refining the list down to a small number of essential elements which Münnich described as the "Supraland formula". The final version of Supraland is described as a cross between Portal, The Legend of Zelda, and the Metroid series. Among the most important aspects of Supraland's gameplay is puzzle solving; Münnich aspired for Supraland's puzzle gameplay to reach the same standard of tactile quality as that of Portal.

According to review aggregator website Metacritic, the PC and Xbox One versions of Supraland has received generally favorable reviews. Writing for Rock, Paper, Shotgun, John Walker declared Supraland to be his favourite video game of 2019. Reviewing the original PC version of Supraland, Kyle Hilliard from Game Informer praised its puzzle design and expansive in-game world which rewards exploration, which offsets its otherwise underwhelming production values in his opinion. In a positive review for the Xbox One version, Donovan Erskine from Shacknews lauded Supraland as one of the best sandbox video games he has ever played and described it as an essential experience for open world video game enthusiasts because it lets players define their own experiences.

He praised its gameplay, which "Feels like a love letter to a laundry list of classic games, doing justice to all of them", but also highlighted the lackluster design aesthetic for its characters and in-game items. John Rairdin from NintendoWorldReport offered a less enthusiastic assessment of Supraland, summarizing the gameplay experience as a "gorgeous world to stumble through." Rairdin faulted the world design of Supraland for dragging down every other aspect of the game, and complained that its "fun moments" and "great idea" are constantly impaired by "confused wandering through what ought to be a much more interesting world".