We were pretty excited about YIIK: A Postmodern RPG back when it first appeared on our radar back in 2015. Back then, JRPG-style games weren’t a commonplace thing on PCs, but YIIK’s sense of time and place is still striking today. It’s set firmly in the 1990s, when alt-rock and flannel were all the rage, but the nature of reality here is plastic, and Yiik (pronounced Y-two-K) travels through time, space, and mental dimensions freely as you follow the adventures of Alex Eggleston, a college dropout who’s trying to figure out how to be a functioning human adult. In that sense, it’s reminiscent of Night in the Woods, but rather than a platforming adventure game, YIIK uses JPRG mechanics cribbed from games like Final Fantasy VII and Ni No Kuni, with some of the stylistic panache of Persona thrown in for good measure. YIIK’s been in development since 2013, and its long development is the result of a tragic personal loss that its creators, brothers Andrew and Brian Allanson, experienced just as they were getting in gear as a games studio. After the untimely death of their mother, the pair decided to suspend development on YIIK.