Arida: Backland's Awakening

Arida: Backland's Awakening

released on Aug 16, 2019

Arida: Backland's Awakening

released on Aug 16, 2019

An adventure game with survival elements in the Brazilian backlands. Explore through the arid regions to collect items, solve quests and find the fate of Cicera.


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Se você é brasileiro vc tem obrigação moral de jogar isso.

A short experience surviving in the Brazilian backlands. The story takes about two hours with some exploration. It's a good time for the run.

The main positives are the charming art style with focus on story. Arida has character design and an environment that feels fresh. The devs did a great job focusing on the people and the area's history. This game did not try to be anything else which is awesome.

The negative, unfortunately, is the gameplay. It's hunger and thirst management with fetch quests. It's fun at first; however, the game does get repetitive as you're constantly monitoring your health as you're exploring. You have to gather everything you see so you can craft food and restore your tools. The quests have you go back and forth to previous areas. When you're exploring it may not be as noticeable, but once I completed a second run for an achievement it was obvious.

Decided not to keep playing. It's unfortunately not a good game. The graphical stuttering also made me dizzy.