Enter the Highlands. Lose yourself. Find harmony. Reach the sea. A narrative adventure with rhythm and survival elements, from the creators of Heaven’s Vault and 80 Days.
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I thought sleeping for the day inside a house would help restore my HP, but every time I rest it keeps going down instead.
An interesting mixture of genres. Part platformer, part exploration and climbing game with realistic-ish movement and measured pacing to avoid taking damage, part adventure, and part rhythm game at times. I liked how it was done.
It's a walking simulator. It's an earnest walking simulator, but it's a walking simulator.
while the environments and sound scape is really good. the gameplay felt awful the more I played it. after 2 hours I just felt like I was done.
I will give it to the developer - the aesthetics are among the best I've experienced in any indie title, and coupled with the amount of praise I've seen, I decided to give the game a try.
I am sadly regretting that decision. The game mechanics, conceptually and in themselves, are fine enough - health management, rain, and terrain navigation are obviously a part of the experience - but it's almost like the game is intentionally made with obtuseness in mind. It's incredibly difficult to get Moira to choose which layer of hillside to get onto, and unintuitive would be a mild way to describe what seems to be very meticulously deliberate counterintuitiveness in what is one of the game's primary mechanics. I understand that it's in part intended to make me feel lost in the Highlands, but the amount of jank does not contribute to a pleasant experience.
I hope to see past its faults after I come back to it at a later date, but so far, it's not an experience I'm eager to recommend to anyone.
I am sadly regretting that decision. The game mechanics, conceptually and in themselves, are fine enough - health management, rain, and terrain navigation are obviously a part of the experience - but it's almost like the game is intentionally made with obtuseness in mind. It's incredibly difficult to get Moira to choose which layer of hillside to get onto, and unintuitive would be a mild way to describe what seems to be very meticulously deliberate counterintuitiveness in what is one of the game's primary mechanics. I understand that it's in part intended to make me feel lost in the Highlands, but the amount of jank does not contribute to a pleasant experience.
I hope to see past its faults after I come back to it at a later date, but so far, it's not an experience I'm eager to recommend to anyone.
Presentation is great, the visuals, music and voice acting both work really well to set up the atmosphere.
Gameplay is... alright, the survival style systems are a bit annoying at times, and the controls can feel a bit slippery.
Not a bad way to spend a couple hours, but I'm probably not going to come back to it.
Gameplay is... alright, the survival style systems are a bit annoying at times, and the controls can feel a bit slippery.
Not a bad way to spend a couple hours, but I'm probably not going to come back to it.