It’s these naturalistic finishes that make Lost in Random pop with magical verisimilitude on more powerful hardware. We see wood, leather, fabric, clay and bone-like substances. The aesthetic resembles stop-motion animation in its use of naturalistic and craft-like materials. The story is Alice in Wonderland meets The Dice Man, so there was plenty of room to get dark with it, but developer Zoink went more gently family-friendly. It’s straight-up fairytale, not subversive. The obvious reference point here is the work of Tim Burton, but by comparison, Lost in Random is not in any way sinister. We’ll come back to those, but the graphics, sound and story are for the most part able to do the heavy lifting that is asked of them. It’s in the battles, though, that gameplay is distinctive. The walking around and chatting to NPCs for quests is all very familiar stuff, relying on the artwork, sound design and writing to lift it all above rote busywork. This structure is not in any way revolutionary but serves well as a framework to drape the game over. In the course of traversing the towns to find and complete these quests, you encounter battles.
The gateways between realms can be opened only when you have enough pips on your dice, and those are acquired by completing quests in the world as you explore. Even starts off in Onecroft and set off to find Odd in Sixtopia, passing in turn through Two-Town, Threedom, etc. The world is structured in six realms - linked to the faces of the dice - from Onecroft, the lowliest of the low, to Sixtopia, representing a fantasy life of luxury with the Queen. When Odd is whisked away, Even sets off to find her, befriending as she goes a magical dice named. They’re separated by the Queen in accordance with a draconian tradition that sees children roll a dice on their twelfth birthday to determine their station for the rest of their life.
Lost in Random tells a story of two sisters, Even and Odd, who inhabit a fantastical storybook world of woollen chess pieces and steampunk teapots and the like.
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