The Wild Eternal

There I am, bored on a Friday night, browsing through my product queue on a whim. Suddenly, I stumble across The Wild Eternal, a game that seems to be exactly up my alley - it appears to be all about exploring an interesting world, and it instantly catches my eye. One impulse buy and half an hour or so of extremely-slow-internet download time later, and I'm ready to start the game. I make myself a cup of tea, grab a quick snack, and get ready to dive in. The tea remained practically untouched for the rest of the night. Within the first fifteen minutes of getting into the game, and being somewhat coldly greeted by my new guide, the Avatar of Dreams, I was transported into a far-away world - a world of vibrantly-colored, beautifully stylized, and strangely ethereal landscapes, with the slightest sense of danger lingering behind every hill and around every tree hiding within the fog. I found myself searching for many things: Aum's Tears, which would allow me to open portals to new local...

I remember finding out about this game a few months ago when the developers made a thread on reddit to show it off. I instantly fell in love with the setting, art style and exploration in the trailer, but I couldn't spare the money at the time to get it (bills and stuff). Anyways, I picked this up during the Summer Sale and was excited to finally get a crack at it. It was actually hard to decide whether to recommend this or not, because there were things I did enjoy about the game (and it kinda makes me dislike the binary rating system Steam has). Overall, though, I found myself frustrated too many times and ultimately let down at the end. If none of what I'm about to say applies to you, then go ahead and buy the game. I'm not at all saying it's a bad game (although this review will probably focus on the negatives), but I feel like it could have been much better, and for $15 I just felt four hours of sometimes-good-sometimes-bad play time wasn't worth it. Pros: -Colorful art style -Re...

I really wanted to like this but it has too many flaws... The core gameplay is basically run around to find collectibles, which in itself would be fine, but exploration is terribly unfun as you don't move fast and have a super limited sprinting meter that recharges outrageously slowly. But this [i]could[/i] be fine, right? Yeah, except knowing where to go is also quite hard; there's a ton of fog everywhere (kinda the point, I know) and little way to orient yourself except randomly stumbling upon a path that takes you a little bit above the fog cover, try to guess if something in the distance is meant to be a landmark, and then trying to walk in that direction. If the payoff for going through this was good I'd be fine with it, but the dialogue with the fox is extremely cryptic and not interesting. The writing definitely does not feel refined, there are grammar/spelling mistakes, and the voice grunts are so irritating I muted them after 20 minutes. This is a beautiful world in search ...

The Wild Eternal encapsulates a life-to-death experience into the imprisoned reaches of a mythological dimension full of optional sacred spies to glimpse and fulfill. A short journey that leaves words of wisdom to be remembered and others to be questioned.

Sometimes I wish there were a sideways thumb for 'ehhhh'... I'm so on the fence about whether to recommend this. Because for those who enjoy "walking simulators," there's quite a lot to like. Pretty scenery, nice music, interesting conversations dancing around Buddhist and Daoist ideas, locations to explore with logbooks. Not to mention the highly unique premise of the entire game. But the issue is in the execution. As obviously a bit of a low budget game, it doesn't have a huge amount of landscape or texture variety. This is a problem, because the individual areas to explore are often quite large - particularly the first area. So after awhile, exploration starts getting to be something of a drag. There's no map, and waypoints are nearly useless until close to the very end of the game. So you'll do a LOT of aimless wandering in search of content through areas that can look pretty samey. In particular, you could be looking for a LONG time to find the entrance to the final are...

Beautiful graphics and colors in the environment of the Himalayas. Challenging puzzles that keep me engaged. A choose-your-path adventure that allows me to explore the beautiful world. A deep and thoughtful storyline. Overall, I highly recommend this game.

This game seems like a really relaxing and chill game. It runs smooth, even on my toaster of a gaming laptop. In a few month ill get a new PC and can hopefully run this on highest graphics. It would be nice with just a little hint about where to go. (just a tiiiiny hint). Eventually I found everything but to me it would still be nice. I'll recommend this game if you want to get a way from the "hardcore" games where you have to focus all the time. But beware of the wilderness in this game though ;)

Beautiful, immersive exploration game with an interesting and unconventional story. I love wandering through the foggy forests.

Very beautiful. Seems like a peaceful, atmospheric game but then there are suspenseful/creepy parts so you don't get too comfortable. The philosophy and practices that permeate the game are really awesome. I hope the dev team can make a sequel/part 2 to this game, because it really captured my mind.

okay, this game is absolutely beautiful in every way- atmosphere, music, gameplay, story- it pretty much has it all. there is no combat at all which made it feel even more like a beautiful journey rather than a game. you spend a lot of time walking around which could be annoying to some people but remember- this is more of an experience than something you just play. reading the journals and the text found throughout makes it that much more immersive and i'd strongly recommend it. however- personally i think the ending of the game completely fell flat and that it brought this gorgeous, immersive and even powerful experience to an absoulte dead hault. it kind of feels like the ending insults all of the wonderful build up to it and i am slightly broken hearted after finishing it.