A recipe for magical realism: Gabriel García Márquez and a video game about potatoes

Sopa (the Spanish for "soup") is a game about a young boy who goes to fetch a potato for his grandma, then stumbles upon a magical world at the back of the food cupboard. "The pantry seems to get longer and longer," explains creative director Juan Castañeda. "And when you're about to grab the sack of potatoes, you get pulled into this other world of fantasy and magical realism. So you go on all these adventures, and meet all these different characters, but at the end of the day, you're really just trying to get that potato for your grandma's soup." As video game quests go, this is fabulously mundane and makes a refreshing change from rescuing princesses in castles and saving lands in peril.