In pensive browser game Agentia, you can explore and assemble poetry as a beetle, a dinosaur or an island | Gaming

Every time you load up Agentia you are reincarnated as a different creature. “Creature” is perhaps too narrow a word – the game’s “playable characters” range from geese, microscopic life and triceratops to menhirs and small rocky islands. Each forms the heart of a diamond of delicately drawn, isometric grid terrain with a baby mobile canopy of clouds and sun. It looks like an illustration from an old botanical or geographical textbook, although the inviting emptiness around the visible area also dimly reminds me of certain elder RPGs I used to play on Macintosh.

There are no dungeons or fell beasts to wrangle with, however. You exist here simply to explore, or be explored, roaming the landscape using the arrow keys (the angled perspective is a little unwieldy) or…