Passing By – a Tailwind Journey is a shocking exploration sport about making an attempt to ship a letter by exploring floating islands together with your flying balloon ship.
On this sport, you’ve your stock full of things, your balloon ship, and a whole lot of little locations to discover. You’ll select the place to land, what to discover, and find out how to greatest preserve your self fed and heat. It’s an journey survival sport the place you’ll need to concentrate to what you’re doing and the place you take Curly, a younger balloonist. Your final purpose 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. In the event you go down, you will notice that you just get hotter, whereas should you 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.
Whenever you see an island you wish 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 that you could decide up, and secret areas to search 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 might 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 stability of needing to look at your wants – going close to fires when chilly, making certain you’ve meals, and many others – provides extra problem to those puzzles, as it is advisable to determine how lengthy to spend in a spot primarily based on these wants. You can too select to skip some locations. When you blow by an island, even should you select to by no means land on it, it’s gone eternally.
I solely bought 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 improvement, however within the meantime, you’ll be able to add it to your Steam Wishlist.
