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

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.

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