Herdling sees you guide some loveable beasts towards a mysterious summit | Gaming

There are unexpected things in life, like when one of the recipes in my Gousto box (basically Hello Fresh) didn’t come packed with a key ingredient: a single red pepper. Devastating, especially since it’s only ever happened to me once. Anyway, this is a long but no less meaningful segue to a game from the Far: Changing Tides and Lone Sails devs Okomotive that’s just been announced at this year’s Geoffcom show. It’s called Herdling and it’s nothing to do with sailing across a decaying universe, but very much to do with alpine expeditions and friendly beasts. Very unexpected.

As the name suggests, Herdling is a singleplayer game that sees you “guide, protect, and fall in love with a motley herd of Calicorns”. Calicorns being these large bison-looking things. The journey…