3.5/5 ★ – nicholaswilder's review of Nobody Saves the World.

What do you get when you combine the gameplay of The Legend of Zelda Links Awakening with the whimsical style of a team like Drinkbox Studios? An incredibly unique, challenging, and endlessly fun action-RPG dungeon-crawler called Nobody Saves the World. You play as the titular character Nobody, "a pale androgynous humanoid who wakes up without any memories (or pants)," trapped in a strange new land under attack by the Calamity. As players progress through the world, they'll slowly unlock a total of 16 unique forms that Nobody can transform into, each with their own unique abilities and attacks from a Mermaids that can swim to a Zombie that can transform combatants into the living dead, a rat, a strongman Bodybuilder, and even an Egg that's yet to be hatched. When it comes to gameplay, the main focus is dungeons, each with its own level requirements, enemy types, and modifiers, and this is where the player will spend most of the time. Beyond that, there is a range of side quests, collectibles to find, and ongoing challenges to level up each form unlock new abilities, and more importantly, new forms (certain forms need to reach a certain rank to unlock others and the final form requires all forms at a certain rank. Overall, Nobody Saves the World is already becoming one of the most underrated and overlooked games in 2022. Sure, it's a little bit too long (coming in at 15 hours on average although I personally took 30 hours), and there are a couple of forms too many that I never got the chance to even unlock, but Nobody Saves the World is Drinkbox Studios best game to date. For fans of Guacamelee! 2, The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening, and Minecraft Dungeons.