Passing By – a Tailwind Journey is a surprising exploration recreation about making an attempt to ship a letter by exploring floating islands along with your flying balloon ship.
On this recreation, you may have your stock full of things, your balloon ship, and a number of little locations to discover. You’ll select the place to land, what to discover, and how you can greatest maintain your self fed and heat. It’s an journey survival recreation the place you will want 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 positive the place to take it. So that you simply go round and discover till you discover it.
Flying your balloon is easy; you possibly can 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 notice that you simply get hotter, whereas if you happen to journey up, you’ll get colder. You may 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 possibly can 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 resolve, provides which you could decide up, and secret areas to seek out. It’s enjoyable exploring and seeing no matter you could find, in addition to utilizing gadgets in your stock to resolve these little puzzles which might be throughout the realm. 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 stability of needing to look at your wants – going close to fires when chilly, guaranteeing you may have meals, and so forth – provides extra problem to those puzzles, as you have to resolve how lengthy to spend in a spot based mostly on these wants. You too can select to skip some locations. When you blow by an island, even if you happen to select to by no means land on it, it’s gone ceaselessly.
I solely obtained 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 growth, however within the meantime, you possibly can add it to your Steam Wishlist.
