Witch Strandings Reviews

A really strange title. Your mouse cursor is your character and different tile types impede your movement, so to build paths you grab items and click and drag them into place. It's a simple narrative, but it is fun to free wheel around the map with your little light orb once you've built paths for yourself. Traversing the forest grid is almost meditative, and the soundtrack really adds to this trance-like play state. There's some interesting bits of description surrounding the animal characters but nothing that gives enough depth to sink emotional hooks into the player. It would have been nice to see a few more endings to this bare bones story to give it a little more depth and punch, or procedural generation on the level itself to give the game a little more replayability, but I enjoyed my time with this game so I'm recommending it. This title has definitely inspired me to look for games with this type of abstract, minimalist style. If you are a game designer or like trying games that are experimenting with off beat gameplay styles, this is a title for you.

Bought it entirely for having a unique art style and I simply had not played anything like this before. I cursed at getting stuck in Hex tiles a few times, but altering mouse sensitivity a few times lead to an interesting adventure. Completed in under two hours, but plan to go many rounds in my little forest when I need a break from the headache of 3D atmospheres. My green little heart beats.

The UI hurts my eyes. You are not allowed to edit settings until you pass the tutorial. Alot of reading and sudden death situations. Not very fun.