Passing By – a Tailwind Journey is a surprising exploration recreation about making an attempt to ship a letter by exploring floating islands together with your flying balloon ship.
On this recreation, you could have your stock full of things, your balloon ship, and loads of little locations to discover. You’ll select the place to land, what to discover, and the best way to greatest hold your self fed and heat. It’s an journey survival recreation the place you have to to concentrate to what you might be doing and the place you’re taking Curly, a younger balloonist. Your final aim is to ship a mysterious letter, however you aren’t actually certain the place to take it. So that you simply go round and discover till you discover it.
Flying your balloon is easy; 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. For those who go down, you will note that you just get hotter, whereas for those who journey up, you’re going to get colder. You would possibly want to alter your character’s clothes to match the climate so you don’t overheat or get too chilly.
Once 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 completely different islands have little puzzles to unravel, provides which you can choose up, and secret areas to seek out. It’s enjoyable exploring and seeing no matter you will discover, in addition to utilizing objects in your stock to unravel these little puzzles which can be throughout the world. Although I’m not certain how opening the arms of swans will have an effect on the broader world, it was so enjoyable to take action and see the island come to life. The steadiness of needing to look at your wants – going close to fires when chilly, making certain you could have meals, and so on – provides extra problem to those puzzles, as it’s worthwhile to resolve how lengthy to spend in a spot based mostly on these wants. You can even select to skip some locations. When you blow by an island, even for those who select to by no means land on it, it’s gone perpetually.
I solely acquired to see a small portion of the sport throughout my time at Gamescom this yr, however am excited to see extra as soon as the sport is out.
Passing By – A Tailwind Journey is presently in growth, however within the meantime, you’ll be able to add it to your Steam Wishlist.