Sword of the Sea

Performance and scaling issues. Sadly with these problems at launch, i can not fully enjoy this masterpiece. Would recommend to buy after patch, until then would rather wait✋ Music and artstyle is breathtaking, gameplay seems enjoyable and fun. Controler support (Dualsense with haptic feedback) is nice touch. I will be pleased to change review to positive after receiving patched and stable product that i paid for ;) EDIT: Decided to ask for return of my money from Steam- will buy again after performance fix update (I hope it will be soon)

[h1]The game's great![/h1] [i]However[/i] not that well optimized. Which makes it somewhat difficult to enjoy. I think it's especially important to guarantee a smooth experience when a lot of the game revolves around movement and eyecandy. The performance remained unstable no matter the graphic settings. [u]I will definitely return to this game when it runs properly![/u]

$30 for a game that took less than 3 hours to beat is insane. The design is beautiful, but there's very little to the game. I didn't rush to beat it, felt like I explored each level to my satisfaction, but still beat it in 2 hours 47 minutes. Not worth the money.

I feel like i NEED this kind of games at least once a year. The last year was Jusant. Now the Sword of the Sea. No cuscenes, no dialogs. You just glide through non-verbal storytelling like it's a beautiful dream that you don't want to wake up from and enjoy those few lovely hours.

What an ABZÛlutely wonderful JOURNEY of a game. I highly recommend it! Another masterpiece from Giant Squid!

Early thoughts: It very obviously feels like a mix of Abzu and Journey, I loved both games so this is great. I've enjoyed it so far, music is amazing, no surprise there. Only complaint I have is that the performance is not good? I realise my rig is a bit old now, but I would imagine that a 3080 would be able to at least push 60 fps everywhere. Hoping there is a patch coming, I haven't dropped down to 30 fps in any game, let alone a toon game in all the years I've used this card.

It is a wonderfully beautiful narrative driven game with very smooth movement mechanics... when the game is running smoothly As unfortunate as it is, I cannot recommend this game until a performance patch is released. I bared through the issues of choppy video playback even at the lowest graphics settings and was not able to really enjoy the game for what it is. If you're a fan of Giant Squid games like I am and want to pick up Sword of the Sea, I recommend waiting until a few updates are made to address the performance issues

What would have been a great Steam deck game instead runs like ass... real waste. Game looks great and movement is really nice, i'll come back when the performance improves I wouldn't recommend it right right now...

Beautiful game. However, really expensive for such a short game. Took me 3 hours even to beat it.

Huge fan of these games. Journey and Abzu could both run on my Steamdeck at 1080p or more docked to my TV. There's no reason this should struggle to get above 50fps on my desktop machine. Performance needs to be addressed.