Cocoon

WayTooManyGamesJordan Hawes

10/10

I have to be honest, I wasn’t all that hyped up coming into Cocoon, despite loving LIMBO and Inside. The initial trailers intrigued me, but the setting wasn’t quite grabbing me like their last games. I say their last games, despite Cocoon being Geometric Interactive’s first game, because this is the studio created by former Playdead employees who made Inside and LIMBO. While I may not have been hyped for Cocoon, I still had high expectations based on the pedigree of the studio, and...

TechRaptorRobert Scarpinito

9.5/10

Cocoon is an approachable, clever, and consistently satisfying puzzle game that respects your intelligence and never leaves you stranded. If you have Xbox Game Pass, it’s an essential title that’s worth experiencing.

Press StartBrodie Gibbons

9/10

Cocoon’s focus on recursive exploration, which sees you peel back the filmic overlay of several coexisting realities to writhe in the depth of their fathoms-deep trickery, is incredibly intelligent in its design and is truly the most technically impressive puzzle game I’ve played since perhaps Portal. And it achieves all of this whilst sharing clear genetics with its forerunners.

GGReconJoseph Kime

Mechanics and narratives thought too bold and bright for some have been transformed into mere child's play by Geometric Interactive in a strong contender for the title of the best indie title of the entire year, and the team has proven that Carlsen's strokes of brilliance in INSIDE and LIMBO were far from flukes.

Pure NintendoKirstie Summers

9/10

From the lead gameplay designer of Limbo and Inside, Cocoon is a similarly unique puzzle platformer. The innovative game is set across a number of distant alien

COGConnectedLou Sytsma

90/100

Jeppe Carlsen, best known as the lead designer for previous puzzler games Limbo and Inside, is back again with Cocoon, developed with Geometric Interactive. Cocoon can be best categorized as part puzzler, part adventure, part platformer and part exploration game. If you have ever played the iconic puzzle-adventure game, Journey, you will feel right at home from the opening screen. Like Journey, Cocoon eschews any sort of narration. The story and gameplay unfold as you explore the surrounding area. Everything is a mystery waiting for you to explore.

The Punished BacklogSam Martinelli

8.7/10

Cocoon is an enthralling video game that captivates with its unique environmental design, brain-busting puzzles, and enchanting ambiance.

VGChartzLee Mehr

8.5/10

With a mind-bending core concept, breathless pacing, and splendid presentation, Geometric Interactive's debut puzzler will keep you rapt up through every world within a world.Upon seeing its reveal trailer for the first time, the immediate connection I made with Cocoon was – oddly enough – Men [...]

Console CreaturesMatt Sowinski

8/10

Cocoon - One Summer of Girlhood is hauntingly beautiful, with heavy content that will stick with you, despite the animation not always working to support the messaging.

TheSixthAxisSteve C

8/10

Cocoon is a beautiful experience that marries a gorgeous aesthetic with increasingly complex puzzles that really push you to experiment with the game’s mechanics. Whilst it isn’t a long or excessively challenging game, I would urge you to absorb yourselves in its dimension-hopping delights.

GameLusterNairon Santos de Morais

8/10

When I watched Men in Black (1997) for the first time as a child, I was struck by the final punchline of the movie. We see the country, then the planet, then the galaxy, eventually revealing that our entire universe is inside a marble that some alien is playing games with. It’s an idea as simple as it is clever, and one that I kind of love. Many years later, the Rick and Morty (2013-) episode The Ricks Must Be Crazy (2015) releases and plays with a similar concept, although in reverse. In it, Rick reveals that inside the battery running his car is a whole universe of people creating energy for...

Lords of GamingJoseph Repko

Unscored

Cocoon is a world hopping, thought provoking and seamless experience with fantastic boss fights and puzzle mechanics, here are our thoughts!