Olafur

Olafur is a single player action game. It was developed by LycorisDev and was released on July 27, 2025.

Codebase link Olafur is a grid-based pseudo 3D game running solely on the CPU. It means that a 2D map is translated into 3D using a technique called raycasting. Rays are casted from the camera until walls are hit, which tells us how far away they are. Knowing the distance allows us to draw the walls: far makes them small, and close makes them big. An example of such a game is Wolfenstein 3D. "Ol…