Passing By – a Tailwind Journey is a surprising exploration sport about attempting to ship a letter by exploring floating islands together with your flying balloon ship.
In this sport, you could have your stock full of things, your balloon ship, and plenty of little locations to discover. You’ll select the place to land, what to discover, and the way to greatest hold your self fed and heat. It’s an journey survival sport the place you will have to concentrate to what you’re doing and the place you’re taking Curly, a younger balloonist. Your final purpose is to ship a mysterious letter, however you aren’t actually positive the place to take it. So you simply go round and discover till you discover it.
Flying your balloon is straightforward; you’ll be able to management a change that lets your balloon go up and down, in addition to one other that sends it left and proper. If you go down, you will note that you simply get hotter, whereas for those who journey up, you’re going to get colder. You would possibly want to change your character’s clothes to match the climate so you don’t overheat or get too chilly.
When you see an island you need to land on, you’ll be able to throw out your anchor and hope that it hits the mark, then get off and discover the island. Many of those totally different islands have little puzzles to remedy, provides that you would be able to decide up, and secret areas to discover. It’s enjoyable exploring and seeing no matter you could find, in addition to utilizing gadgets in your stock to remedy these little puzzles which are throughout the world. Though I’m not positive how opening the arms of swans will have an effect on the broader world, it was so enjoyable to achieve this and see the island come to life. The stability of needing to watch your wants – going close to fires when chilly, making certain you could have meals, and many others – provides extra problem to these puzzles, as you want to resolve how lengthy to spend in a spot based mostly on these wants. You may select to skip some locations. Once you blow by an island, even for those who select to by no means land on it, it’s gone eternally.
I solely received to see a small portion of the sport throughout my time at Gamescom this 12 months, however am excited to see extra as soon as the sport is out.
Passing By – A Tailwind Journey is at the moment in improvement, however within the meantime, you’ll be able to add it to your Steam Wishlist.
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