Bread & Fred

This game caused my divorce. 10/10

My mate Johan and I went in completely blind, which, in hindsight, wasn't a choice so much as the only setting available. So we did what any reasonable adults would do to make a bad situation bearable: invented an entire backstory. We were husband and wife. Penguins. Devoted. Soulmates, really. About to trek across a frozen hellscape to rescue our kidnapped child. We had never met this child. We had no evidence a child existed. But he was ours now, and frankly he was more compelling than anything the game actually offered. First, though, a public service announcement: the online is broken. Not "janky." Broken. We spent more time trying to connect than we spent deciding to buy the thing - which, in retrospect, should have been the review right there. Each failed attempt had the energy of politely asking a Victorian switchboard operator for permission to exist. And as far as I can tell it's been like this for over a month, which tells you exactly how much anyone involved cares. Good luck. You'll need more than luck. Eventually, miraculously, we got in. And the game revealed its true story. You ready for this? You're delivering a letter. That's the whole thing. Not rescuing a child. Not saving your bloodline. Delivering post. A premise so thin you could read a newspaper through it. We convinced two emotionally invested penguins to march across the Arctic to do the one errand every human on earth actively avoids, and the game presents this with a straight face, as though it's earned any of it. So off we went, lashed together with rope, hauling ourselves over glaciers and cliff faces like two flightless interns on a zero-hours contract with Royal Mail. Every death-defying leap, every frozen lake, every brush with hypothermia - all in service of mechanics that never rise above "functional on a good day." The co-op tether, which should be the whole point, mostly just yanks you into deaths you didn't earn. And then, after everything - the letter blows away. There's your emotional payoff. Thousands of jumps, a difficulty curve that mistakes frustration for challenge, and it all resolves into a piece of paper that functionally says "never mind." I've rarely seen a game so committed to wasting your time and then telling you it was the point. Two stars. One for the idea it clearly thought it was executing. One out of respect for the letter, who was, in the end, the only one of us to escape.

maybe at a steep discount, but not for $15. so, this game is split into two experiences - single and co-op. going to co-op after finishing single first made me see how much stuff is exclusive to co-op. there are a few missions that, as it stands, would be impossible to do in singleplayer, so it's just not there. there's also a whole other area, bigger than the main mountain that's exclusive to co-op. it would've been cool to either have alternate quests for singleplayer, or be able to carry an extra item so they could be completed. kudos to the dev for adding a singleplayer mode, but it's just not that enjoyable and feels incomplete - tacked on even. the game is meant to be difficult, might even call it a rage game. there are assists to help make it easier (for better or worse). i genuinely don't think i would've had the patience for this without using the checkpoints. fwiw, a lot of people are complaining in the forums about online co-op not working, but i had zero issues with local. i also ran into one bug in singleplayer where my rock sunk through the floor down over 100m, but thankfully i was able to recover because of the checkpoints.

if you are planning to buy this game for the purpose of playing it with someone, pls dont, you will end up strangling the person youre playing with and then try to conceal the murder but then get caught because you have no idea how to hide a body, good game tho

No malo, tampoco bueno. Desde que juego esto me peleo más seguido con mi novio pero hacía falta eso en la relación. Recomendado si tu relación es muy sana y quieres algo de toxicidad en tu vida

It cannot be played co-op, which I guess it's the whole point? Seems like the developers abandoned the game

It is impossible to play on separate devices. It won't let you join or host a party and if you do host one it won't let whoever you're trying to play with join. I played in person with a friend which the actual game was impossible to get through. It is so difficult to get through because they make the jumps impossible and the off chance that you make it, you fall because your partner can't make it. The game won't even let me play right now and it's way too late to return it. I don't recommend buying the game.