Etherborn is an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice calls to you, patiently awaiting your arrival. As your first thoughts emerge, you realise your journey has just begun. You must reach this ethereal voice to fully understand your own existence.
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inoffensive but immensely boring
I really want to keep playing because the mazes are fun but the camera is so clunky and the plataforming so awkward...
Looks pretty and has this interesting Escher-esque level design, but as a game falls quite flat. The movement feels a bit slow and stilted, the camera movements frequently trip up the platforming, and the puzzles are a bit too simple and don't get you thinking about the shapes of the worlds.
Youropa is a significantly stronger title that uses a similar premise for the "puzzle" design, but makes a much stronger and more polished game out of it.
Youropa is a significantly stronger title that uses a similar premise for the "puzzle" design, but makes a much stronger and more polished game out of it.
Etherborn's puzzles did not gel with my brain. That might be a me issue, ymmv.
"Listen, at last, to what has always existed and was never there, and seek until your last breath ━ the impossible pathway."
Delve into an atmospheric world of Etherborn, a puzzle platformer, that focuses on the aspects of ever changing gravity. You play as a voiceless being that was just recently born into this world, where a bodiless voice guides your journey forward. The game feels like a dream, the ever changing gravity with the structures is mesmerizing and disorienting at times, you scratch your head many times when trying to find these orbs that get you forward, but the puzzles are not too difficult that it would hinder the progress.
The low-poly graphical style of this game doesn't take away from the atmosphere of the game at all. It actually enhances it! The way the fog around the platforms and the god rays that shine through the bars add to the look of the game is absolutely fantastic!
I had a bunch of fun playing through the game for one time, but adding the new game plus was kind of annoying. Sure it was different since the orbs were harder to find, but the game doesn't have any choices or different endings, so adding a ng+ seems a little weird.
Even so, I think the game is very good indie game and well worth the playtime. I don't think it should be as expensive as it currently is, so if you plan on getting it, just wait for a sale. Otherwise, 100% recommended!
Delve into an atmospheric world of Etherborn, a puzzle platformer, that focuses on the aspects of ever changing gravity. You play as a voiceless being that was just recently born into this world, where a bodiless voice guides your journey forward. The game feels like a dream, the ever changing gravity with the structures is mesmerizing and disorienting at times, you scratch your head many times when trying to find these orbs that get you forward, but the puzzles are not too difficult that it would hinder the progress.
The low-poly graphical style of this game doesn't take away from the atmosphere of the game at all. It actually enhances it! The way the fog around the platforms and the god rays that shine through the bars add to the look of the game is absolutely fantastic!
I had a bunch of fun playing through the game for one time, but adding the new game plus was kind of annoying. Sure it was different since the orbs were harder to find, but the game doesn't have any choices or different endings, so adding a ng+ seems a little weird.
Even so, I think the game is very good indie game and well worth the playtime. I don't think it should be as expensive as it currently is, so if you plan on getting it, just wait for a sale. Otherwise, 100% recommended!
I think I need to play some Gears of War now, too much thinking.