Child of Light

A very beautiful and stylized art design. Turn-based combat with interesting twists and characters that feel distinct from one another. The story is good, although toward the end it feels a bit rushed. Overall, a good experience—the only real downside is having to use the Ubisoft launcher.

Ubisoft won't let me play because U-play doesn't recognize that I have this even though I bought it here on Steam and went back and forth with their terrible Support team for over 3 hours and gave them every bit of evidence they asked for to show I owned it. U-play games on Steam need the same Warning/Notice that games that require a PSN account have.

The Good: This game is incredibly charming. For what you pay, you get a really stylistic game with a beautiful OST and solid gameplay. I played on Steam Deck; no special settings were required and the controls felt perfect. The story is straightforward and the characters are simple, but the game is short and it works (it took 16 hours to fully complete everything). The Bad: You have to sign up for a Ubisoft account before the game will let you play it. This annoyed me slightly. You should buy this game if: - You like turn based games. - You like fairy tales. The story is a big fairy tale and everything rhymes. - You want a short, compact narrative with fun and simple characters. You should not buy this game if: - You do not want to create a Ubisoft account. - You like to collect achievements (there are none in this game).

Yet again Ubisoft proves that they can destroy their legacy. Ubisoft Connect huh? Connect what exactly. it is sad that this gem of a game, although short, has effectively been gatekept from players. I still give this game a thumbs up, but Ubisoft gets a big, huge, middle finger.

The game itself is fine, would soft-recommend. I'm not a big fan of the final-fantasy-genre turn-based combat aspect, but as those things go it's a little bit more interesting than usual with the semi-controllable timeline. The main core of the game, the exploring, is also fine. Nice graphics. Decent sound. Pretty bad writing where they tried to make everything rhyme, but didn't try *very hard* so it's like eighth-grader poetry quality of rhyming, with sentences rearranged to put the rhyming word at the end where it doesn't really go, bad scansion in general, and many of the rhymes are near-misses. But the reason it's a not-recommend is Ubisoft's stupid launcher. I shouldn't have to have an online account to play a single-player game [once it's downloaded]. I expect at some point whatever service it requires to be running will stop running, and every existing copy of the game will become unplayable, which is just a horrible thing to do, Ubisoft should be ashamed of themselves for this. If they were going to remove this annoyance they should have done so already. I can understand it being there at launch-time, maybe they originally sold it only through their own platform, but two years after it's been on Steam it should be long gone.

Currently (14th March 26) it crushes on Windows.

What a delightful piece of magic <3 SO incredibly enjoyable from start 2 finish w/ amazing turn-based combat + a wholesome tale to accompany it. so charming, a must play :)