Passing By – a Tailwind Journey is a shocking exploration sport about attempting to ship a letter by exploring floating islands along with your flying balloon ship.
On this sport, you’ve your stock full of things, your balloon ship, and numerous little locations to discover. You’ll select the place to land, what to discover, and the right way to greatest hold your self fed and heat. It’s an journey survival sport the place you’ll need to concentrate to what you might be doing and the place you take Curly, a younger balloonist. Your final objective is to ship a mysterious letter, however you aren’t actually positive 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 swap that lets your balloon go up and down, in addition to one other that sends it left and proper. If you happen to go down, you will note that you simply get hotter, whereas in case you journey up, you’re going to get colder. You would possibly want to vary your character’s clothes to match the climate so you don’t overheat or get too chilly.
Whenever 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 decide up, and secret areas to search out. It’s enjoyable exploring and seeing no matter yow 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 positive 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, guaranteeing you’ve meals, and many others – provides extra problem to those puzzles, as it’s worthwhile to resolve how lengthy to spend in a spot primarily based on these wants. You can even select to skip some locations. When you blow by an island, even in case you select to by no means land on it, it’s gone endlessly.
I solely received 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 at the moment in improvement, however within the meantime, you’ll be able to add it to your Steam Wishlist.
