Chowdertwo

Chowdertwo sounds like a small, oddball game name, and that oddness is probably the whole first impression it wants to give. By our assessment, there is not enough solid public substance to pretend more than that: it reads like the sort of title used for a compact indie game that relies on personality rather than big systems. Its strength, if the name is any guide, is memorability; the downside is that nothing in the title tells you what you actually do once the game starts. That makes it the kind of project where the moment-to-moment feel matters far more than the label. Against other games, it sits in the broad camp of small, quirky releases that ask for curiosity first and judgment later. The real test is whether the design underneath the strange name has enough shape to carry it.