Sable

A charming coming-of-age story heavily inspired by French comic master Moebius in its aesthetics and by Dune too, in some smaller details. You are a young girl doing her "youth trip" using a specific power fading in adulthood, and meet lots of interesting people and have adventures helping you decide who you want to be on your adult life. The lore of this game is kinda rich and original, and clans and guilds are differentiated by their mask, instruments of survival due to the non breathable air of the planet but also heavily important socially. There are no dangers in your trip, apart from getting lost in your neverending wanderlust. And despite some bugs the sense of awe and the magnificent looking and constantly changing colors make your trip a memorable adventure. The game is far from perfect but believe me it's a gem to eveyone fascinated by aimless travelling should not miss. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3528870707

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This game is gorgeous and the soundtrack is very nice. However the gameplay is very slow and very "make your own game". It mostly consists of driving around a fairly empty landscape, and then climbing some towers... with some very obviously inspired by BotW climbing and stamina mechanics. There is no combat, it's exploration for its own sake doing minor tasks that largely seem to be fetch quests. It's an open world, but that means it can't really do set pieces or timed music the way something like Journey, or Sword of the Sea do. The lack of combat and meaningful rewards means it lacks some of the motivation something like Zelda or Dark Souls would have to encourage you to explore it all. I didn't get too far into the game, but the opening tutorial takes nearly an hour, and then seeing what it had to offer once it opened up, I knew it wasn't going to be for me. It's very calm and meditative, and for those that like to explore for exploration sake, or to just get caught up in the world, they might find a real true gem here. Other reviewers put in many more hours than I did seem to have found things to like about it, but I don't personally want to play it any further. I won't downvote the game or give it a negative review for that, it's exactly what it wants to be... it's just not for me.

Interesting art design, world, characters, and music, but the writing is the corniest airport-bookstore-soft-romance-core fake deep ♥♥♥♥ I've ever seen in a game. Every single dialogue interaction includes my character's reactions to what other characters are saying; it's sooooo grating and, imo, counter-intuitive to what the game is trying to accomplish. (I don't need to be told that my character's ears are buzzing after I get a new hoverbike.) The game starts out wanting to show and not tell, with an intriguing exposition-free intro, and then proceeds to jam the experience full of agonizingly verbose inner and outer dialogue. Took about 45 minutes for me to wince my way into a refund.

I love this game so much but it is just ruined by bugs, poor optimizations and stutters that just makes it kinda a slog to try and get through. If this game didnt have glitches it would be so good but in its current state its just not worth it.

Honestly pretty mundane. Beautiful artistic style unfortunately couldn't save the drag that the game ended up being. Unpolished physics and graphics combined with boilerplate story and gameplay made this game mostly a mid tier experience at best for me. It was easy to get drawn in by the interesting art direction, but I can't say the game was worth my time.

It kinda pains me to say that this game is overhyped: while the concept of the game is good, the execution is lacking. The intended experience of the game is to use a cool hoverbike to travel between interesting landmarks on a massive map, appreciating the scenery on the journey and the character interactions at the destinations, and a couple little puzzles along the way, but in practice it fails at every step to deliver that experience: The hoverbike handles poorly, moves too slow, and constantly smashes into the ground when not on flat terrain. I cannot really overstate how sad it is to pilot the thing, it constantly spins around and smashes into the floor, everything about piloting it looks and feels wrong. You can slap upgrades on the thing to make it perform slightly differently, but the upgrades are all tied to cosmetic changes that might not be the look you want, and also have a cost to purchase so are mostly unavailable without backtracking. The world is large, but empty. There isn't really much point in exploring because there aren't any rewards to going to places that aren't obviously constructed to be gone to, and the bike moves so sluggishly/awkwardly that it's not really fun to just drive around in the sand, so the end result is just moving in a straight line from one landmark to another. The landmarks themselves are well constructed and tend to have interesting characters in them, but most of those characters don't have more than one set of dialogue if they have any at all, and the button prompts to talk to them often bug out and become invisible. On top of that, the UI also can break while talking to them, making it impossible to select different response lines or navigate a trading screen, forcing you to restart the game to get it to work again. The artstyle is very pretty, but it's execution results in a complete inability to judge the depth or slope of an object without swinging the camera around, which means in a game with a lot of climbing you can't really figure out what you can climb on until you get to it and jump against it. A lot of the game is just stutter-stepping up small inclines and then sliding back down, for an overall experience that feels more like tripping than hiking. The player character themself is awkward to move, as the artstyle gives them a very limited set of animations, and the movement and platforming that then fall out of that feel very mechanical and awkward. It's very difficult to move with any real precision, which results in a non-trivial amount of the game being you as the player fighting with the camera and the jump animation in order to get where you want. Maybe this was a problem with playing the game using a controller, but usually controllers make platforming easier, not harder. The puzzles are mostly just going to a place that someone told you to go to and then just finding a way to get to a thing you can see by either climbing, carrying something, or jumping. There's nothing inherently wrong with the problem solving parts of the game, but they tend to be very simplistic and have minimal or effectively no rewards. It's a game design that has worked in other titles, but here it feels underwhelming. Altogether, it's more than possible that you might like this game, but it felt undercooked to me, especially for a game that was in development for as long as it was. It's strange to find an indie passion project that feels like it was released before it was ready, usually people that work a long time to bring their ideas to life are not happy with releasing something that isn't "finished" and it's hard to play this game and not notice the lack of polish. Breath of the Wild does this but much better, or if you'd prefer to support other indie projects, check out Caravan Sandwitch

As much as I enjoyed playing this game, I cannot recommend it due to the horrendous performance issues. I tinkered with the few visual settings available in the game and nothing resolved the absolutely bonkers stuttering/FPS drops on both my desktop and Steam Deck. The visuals and music were good enough to make me suffer through the choppy gameplay. Check it out only if (1.) you like collectathon games, and (2.) it's heavily discounted.