ICO

ICO is an action-adventure game developed by Team Ico, led by Fumito Ueda, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 in 2001. A boy born with horns is sealed inside a tomb in an abandoned castle, escapes, and finds Yorda, a girl held in a cage, whom he must lead out of the castle by the hand.

Most of the game is spent solving environmental puzzles so that both characters can pass, and fighting off the shadow creatures that try to drag Yorda away. Its sparse presentation and minimal dialogue made it an influence on many later games, and it was remastered for the PlayStation 3 in 2011.

A native PC port built from a community decompilation runs the PAL release on Windows, Linux and the Steam Deck.