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 will 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 sport the place you’ll need to concentrate to what you might be doing and the place you’re taking 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 straightforward; 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. When you go down, you will note that you just get hotter, whereas for those who journey up, you’ll 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.
If you see an island you need 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 unravel, provides that you would be able to choose up, and secret areas to seek out. It’s enjoyable exploring and seeing no matter you’ll find, in addition to utilizing objects in your stock to unravel these little puzzles which can 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, making certain you will have meals, and so forth – provides extra problem to those puzzles, as it’s essential to determine 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 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 presently in improvement, however within the meantime, you possibly can add it to your Steam Wishlist.