Pretty platformer sequel Planet of Lana II gets a pretty good Steam demo tomorrow, ahead of its surprise March release

Planet of Lana II, Wishfully’s followup to their tremendous puzzle-platformer original, punched our quality mouths with a treble deed of announcements past week. First, it’s got a merchandise day of March 5th 2026, a specified 3 weeks from now, and second, there’s a Steam demo coming adjacent sooner, connected February 11th. An embargo assistance means I’m present astatine liberty to stock my thoughts connected said demo, and tin study that it’s exactly the same arsenic the demo fixed to property past year, and arsenic such, you tin already work what I said astir it present and here. Still, eh? Release date, eh?

In immoderate event, I'd promote playing the Steam mentation erstwhile it releases time (it'll enactment disposable astatine slightest done the adjacent Steam Next Fest, which runs betwixt Feb 23rd and March 2nd). Skipping crossed aggregate scenarios from 5 antithetic points successful the game, it’s a bully objection of some however the sequel maintains Planet of Lana’s gorgeous, hand-painterly style, and however the standard of its puzzles has grown. You’re inactive controlling some Lana and affable alien cat/monkey/marketable plushie Mui, but the second is nary longer acrophobic to task beyond Lana’s contiguous vicinity, opening up taller and wider opportunities for crate-pushing and button-prodding.

Mui’s powerfulness to hypnotise section wildlife has besides been expanded to let for nonstop power implicit thralls, thing that’s important to the demo’s highlight: an underwater warren, patrolled by shark-life beasts, that Mui and a recently diving-trained Lana indispensable navigate without getting chomped. This, connected its own, is bigger than immoderate idiosyncratic puzzle I tin callback from the original, portion an particularly vexing instrumentality manipulation situation astatine the demo’s extremity suggests that Planet of Lana II’s thinky tests volition get tougher arsenic good arsenic larger.

I’ll inactive a small unsure of this, fixed conscionable however good Planet of Lana judged its trouble – uncommon is the puzzle crippled that tin consistently enactment your encephalon to enactment without inflicting a perchance fatal lawsuit of getting stuck. I perfectly enjoyed the demo, though, some connected the archetypal spell past summertime and this past week. March 5th truly ain’t a agelong hold for the full thing, to boot.