A Highland Song is charming in that classic Inkle style - it's a small, personal story told non-linearly in a visually interesting world. Climb hills, find strange objects, read some maps, talk to strangers, and make it to your destination.. days too late. Until you go again and see the different way your story unfolds.

The downside to A Highland Song is that the other gameplay mechanics - the climbing/platforming, and autoscroller rhythm game - aren't particularly engaging. The climbing is a bit slow and tedious, in a world that's so easy to get lost in because of the visual similarity of the overlapping layers of hills - while the rhythm minigame feels a bit light and lacks any real sensation to nailing an action on the beat.

It's an interesting game - it's Inkle, of course it is - but not one that I felt compelled to play more of.