World-hopping adventure Cocoon is the new game from a designer of Limbo Rock Paper Shotgun Support us Join our newsletter Visit our store Sign in / Create account If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. World-hopping adventure Cocoon is the new game from a designer of Limbo Not to be confused with the films about OAPs and aliens News by CJ Wheeler News Reporter Published on June 12, 2022 6 comments Cocoon is an insectoid puzzle adventure that's being developed by Jeppe Carlsen, the lead gameplay designer of Playdead's Inside and Limbo. The game was announced at today's Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, and its worlds-within-worlds reality hopping system has already blown my mind a little. Check it out for yourself in the trailer below. Watch on YouTube Cocoon is about jumping between worlds using only the power of your balls. You play as a little insect lad in Cocoon, picking up differently coloured balls on your back and chucking them about to solve puzzles. Surprise! The balls are actually worlds you can enter. This raises the heady philosophical problem of infinite regress, a.k.a. "It's turtles all the way down". I'm just a games journalist, so I don't really have a solution for that I'm afraid, but now you know where the game's cocoon moniker comes from anyway. Each world orb has an ability tied to it, which you can then use in other worlds to find hidden areas or fire things to push switches, for example. Carlsen is known for his work on the distinctive side-scrolling platform puzzlers Inside and Limbo, so Cocoon's top-down viewpoint is a shift for him. Publishers Annapurna Interactive say that you'll need to "combine, manipulate, and rearrange" the world orbs to solve puzzles. There's multiple biomes to explore, from industrial areas to huge organic caverns. Hang on, orbs to collect by solving puzzles, different zones… this is beginning to sound more and more like The Crystal Maze. Oh wait, no, you have to fight guardian bosses too. I don't think Mumsie counts as a boss. Cocoon will open up on Steam at some point in 2023. It's also coming to Xbox and Nintendo Switch, and will be on Microsoft's Game Pass service. By that point, I might have learnt to spell cocoon right the first time. Not E3 2022 is in full-swing - see everything in our E3 2022 hub, as well as our complete round-up of everything announced at Summer Game Fest 2022. Many more big game showcases and streams are still to come this summer, so make sure you stay up to date with our summer games stream schedule. More News Jack King-Spooner's next handcrafted game has a teaser demo out Judero brings chat and action in the Scottish Borders Alice O'Connor 17 hours ago 1 If you were hoping for any Overwatch 2 balance changes then you'll have to wait until season two The next season begins in December CJ Wheeler 18 hours ago 3 The Dead Space remake will chuck random Necromorphs at you as you wander the Ishimura In space, no one can hear you proper bricking it CJ Wheeler 18 hours ago 8 Valve register mysterious new Neon Prime trademark in the US It doesn’t seem to be for a particularly colourful Steam Deck CJ Wheeler 20 hours ago 11 Latest Articles What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Alice O'Connor an hour ago 21 Past Wordle answers Here's an archive of previous Wordle words Ollie Toms 2 hours ago 1 Wordle answer today (Saturday 15 October) Hints and the answer to today's Wordle word Rebecca Jones 9 hours ago Overwatch 2 hero tier list Which are the best heroes in Overwatch 2? Ollie Toms 16 hours ago Supporters Only You're probably better than me at One Many Nobody You go on without… uh, you? Sin Vega 17 hours ago Supporter podcast - The Nate Files episode 13: dry bones Bad science is also FUN science! Alice Bell 18 hours ago Japanese dating show Love Wagon has surprising parallels with Yakuza and Persona My new obsession Ed Thorn 2 days ago If you're hankering after Bayonetta 3, Valkyrie Elysium might be a good substitute It's not out on PC until next month, but the console demo has been a surprise charmer Katharine Castle 1 week ago 4 We've been talking, and we think that you should wear clothes Total coincidence, but we sell some clothes Buy RPS stuff here