CottonTail

CottonTail stakes its design on a single mechanical toggle: Corporal Calla Warren fights half the battle as a lightweight, mobile rabbit, then jumps into her combat mech CLOVER for durability and firepower. This switch between agility and armor is not a novelty option but the spine of the entire game. The release date for CottonTail is July 21, 2026, arriving on PC.

The core tension the game is built around is whether swapping between these two forms stays engaging across five zones of escalating void corruption. Calla's toolkit on foot—double jump, dodge, dash, sprint, slide—reads as a classic lightweight platformer moveset, the kind that rewards mastery of momentum and positioning. CLOVER, by contrast, is a heavier platform: more durable, more direct in combat, but presumably slower and less nimble. The real question is not whether both forms work in isolation, but whether the game can keep you making meaningful tactical choices about which form to use and when, rather than defaulting to one and ignoring the other.

Mech and Rabbit Across Five Zones

The five unique levels—meadows, wetlands, and three others only partially described—suggest a traditional progression structure, each zone tied to a distinct biome and a rising threat level as the Selenites' void corruption spreads. The narrative skeleton is straightforward: moon wizards corrupt your world with dark meteors, corrupted flora drives wildlife mad, and Calla and CLOVER are Burrow's elite V Mech Corps tasked with stopping the corruption before it takes hold completely. That setup is unambitious but functional, a frame for combat encounters rather than a story meant to carry the game on its own.

The real test is execution: whether Cactus Patch Games can keep the mech-to-rabbit switching feeling fresh and tactical across ninety minutes or however long the campaign runs, or whether the novelty flattens and one form dominates while the other becomes a visual interlude. An indie studio's first action-adventure is not a guaranteed hit, and the mechanical ambition here is precisely sized to the scale of the team.

Who Should Play

CottonTail is built for players who enjoyed the tightly-controlled platformer movement in games like Celeste or Hollow Knight but want a combat-focused frame around that mobility, mixed with the heavier, mecha-style set pieces that appeal to action-adventure fans. If you want a single-player campaign that does not linger, arrives finished on day one without early access or episodic delays, and does not demand multiplayer co-op or live-service upkeep, this fits cleanly into that space. Skip it if you need story depth, a sprawling world to explore, or if you are sceptical that a rabbit-and-mech toggle can sustain a full campaign's worth of tactical interest.