Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which Steve Hogarty explores the wilds of early access. This week Steve has been running and jumping and building things to run and jump on in the platformer Levelhead.
Developer: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Publisher: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Release: Out now (early access)
On: Windows
From: Steam
For: 15.49, $20, 16.79
Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the few bona fide, mega-brain geniuses working in games. Inspired by the time he watched a plumber die of a concussion near a tortoise, the Nintendo luminary invented Mario in his toolshed in Kyoto, using nothing more than a couple of AAA batteries and a soldering iron.