Planet of Lana is a puzzle-platformer from Wishfully Studios and published by Thunderful Publishing released on May 23, 2023 for the Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
On the Earth like planet Novo, Lana and her big sister Elo live a humble existence in their small fishing village.
A humble existence shattered when alien machines descend from the stars, capturing the entire village sans Lana.
Now Lana, along with a strange cat like creature named Mui, must traverse the world, save her village, and stop these mysterious invaders.
Tropes of Lana:
- Colony Ship: The planet's population are descendants from a colony ship that never made it to wherever it was originally heading.
- Disco Tech: Seemingly a part of the robot's communication-and-control system, with the robots emitting a pattern of tones when seeing things to attack and the giant robot sending deep bass tones across the landscape that resonate with the smaller robots. As these tones are present in the crashed Colony Ship and tones learned there can be used to override the robots, this hints at a common source for the two.
- People Zoo: The alien mothership is revealed to be a holding area for humans Lana gets aboard.
- Scenery Porn: There are several places with gorgeous vistas throughout the game. Some sections even go on for a little while just to give the player an opportunity to take it all in.
- Speaking Simlish: The language spoken in game is a creation of the game makers, with no subtitles available, leaving it up to the player to deduce the story from context alone.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: It's implied the robots are simply following their programming, trying to wrangle up the humans and continue heading for the colony ship's original destination, but with a bit of murderous programming corruption.
