Distant Bloom

I want to like the game so much. It's a fun little cozy game where you explore and clear out pollution and terraform. The gameplay is simple and chill, and it's fun to poke around and see what's around the next corner BUUUUUT it is so damn easy to soft lock in this game.. There doesn't seem to be sufficient redundancy in quest triggers and they can be interrupted. If you don't pause and let the quests complete and the next one trigger, if you run too fast and change screens or click too fast you can interrupt the next quest from triggering and then you're soft locked. Even if you find "the next thing" you can never retrigger that quest again and your game is now corrupt. To make matters worse because it uses an autosave method, you can't even just back up 5 minutes to get it to trigger properly. The upside is the game isn't very long so it's not like you're losing that much content. The downside is the game isn't really worth a replay and a cozy game should never be so frustrating.

Super cute game about cleaning up environments from different types of pollution and planting cohesive plants to help the place flourish. It's also about healing old wounds and making a home for yourself/your family. Quick game, good mechanics, fair achievements, great music and art.

Unfortunately, the very promising alpha I played did not end up becoming nearly as good of a full release. While the graphics, premise, and core gameplay of revitalising the planet were good, I experienced a number of visual glitches of plants phasing in and out of rocks as well as the character being turned away from animals they are meant to be petting. About 2/3s into the game I stopped getting quests which I'm not sure was intended that way or not. Most egregiously, however is the navigation that other reviewers have also mentioned. I'm generally bad with navigation in games but this game takes the cake in terms of inaccessibility and frustration. You only get to know what region you are in with no more precise location indicator and paths seem deliberately stretched and difficult to manoeuvre, especially due to the fact that you can't jump. Trying to remember what area you still need to clear, and having to double back several times as you upgrade your cleaning tool was incredibly frustrating and grating. I really wanted to love the game and finish it but I just couldn't. If they had a bit more polish as honestly the alpha had less bugs than the full game, better fast travel, and precise map locations, this could have been brilliant. Unfortunately it also seems like the developers have stopped working on the project, shame.

Very feathery around the edges but it's one of those games where you turn corrupted pockets of dead ground into flourishing pastures and that's never a bad time.

I really like this game- very satisfying to revitalize the areas and I never get tired of seeing the environment come back to life <3 I love that all the areas have their own color schemes as well- so so pretty

This is a bit of a hard one because I greatly enjoyed my time with this game but it does feel unfinished and has several bugs. I didn't run into any game breaking bugs but I did get stuck a few times and had to use the return to base button and then run all the way back to where I had gotten stuck to complete what I had been doing while trying not to get stuck in the same spot again. Despite this, I had fun exploring the beautiful environment and petting the various animals. The story and characters had more depth to them than I had expected. Though I do wish the story was a little longer. I recommend this game for anyone who likes relaxing, simple puzzle games with a feel good message and has a bit of patient for something not quite what it should be.

Скорее посоветую пройти разок, чем нет. Игра хороша, незатейливый сюжет на один раз, она очень милая, не сложная, чилловая. Бегаешь, сажаешь цветочки, открываешь новые растения. В игре нет мини карты, только компас с отметками, в целом пойдет, но чтобы искать предметы, не отмеченные вообще никак нигде - неудобно. Ну и карту запоминать приходилось, где локации, где проходы, хоть она и не большая, но под конец игры надоело. Много микро багов, когда персонаж застревает в цветке после того, как только посадил его, когда пропадает интерфейс после подбора лута + приходилось перезаходить в игре, потому что повар не отдавал приготовленную еду. Сюжет слабоват, ну он просто очень простой, сайд квестов можно было бы накинуть еще.