Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate Steam Charts & Stats

A pretty damn good remake with some annoyances. If you've played the first one, this one is that plus more. PROs -Visual updates, Expanded areas, new gear/weapons, enemies, better mechanics, and more. -One of the flaws of the first is if you lose an item or bugs out you have to restart from a checkpoint, this fixes that by introducing a tool to respawn items which helps in many ways. -The story is pretty much the same but the time eras are expanded and provided more story, exploration, items, weapons, etc. -Puzzles are good, combining knowledge between worlds and figuring out what to use where. Cons - The AI is meh, they take one shot to die (not sure if intentional), don't move much, and just behave basic. - The grabbing of parkour can be annoying sometimes, you have to specifically grab ledge to ledge, so you cant go to far, its like a sequence you have to go through instead of skipping grabs, annoying as if you go quickly, can just miss and Die. I would get this game with the bundle of Lies of Rain, as that game is good as well for a discount. 8/10, Don't get the first if you haven't played any, just get this one.

My hands are tied on this one. I loved the ambitious concept, production values, performance and unique adventure gameplay of Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate. But when it's also the glitchiest game I've ever played, this thumbs down is well deserved. I wrote many notes about this game, but I have no desire to convert them into a detailed review. Now that we all can see that the developer has abandoned this bugfest of a game in an unacceptable state, I'm going to keep this simple. Here is a list of major glitches I encountered, up to and including game-breaking scenarios of soft lock and hard lock. [h3]Definitions[/h3] [b]SOFT LOCK:[/b] Glitches that prevent immediate progression, such as getting stuck. Reloading the last autosave can usually fix it. [b]HARD LOCK:[/b] Long-term progression-blocking glitches with effects so severe that the state of the playthrough is PERMANENTLY invalidated. Completing the game is impossible. Only way to restore the playthrough is to load a previous save from before the blocking glitch and try again. [h3]Partial list of major glitches I experienced[/h3] [list] [*]SEVERE GLITCH: Grabbing anything caused my character to be launched in random directions, sending me into the kill volume. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoalRe5p4tE [*]SOFTLOCK: Similar to the grab launch glitch, but getting one of my hands stuck in geometry. Collision makes it impossible to remove my hand or use my watch. [*]SEVERE GLITCH: Both the inventory and objective modes of the watch active at once. [*]EXPLOITABLE GLITCH: Respawning blue fragment pieces in Von Braun's manor, providing unlimited fragments for upgrades. [*]HARDLOCK: Soviet Attack, 1) Die repeatedly, the scenario glitches and soldiers wander outside of view/range. Can't complete it and can't fail. Time traveling away and back doesn't fix it. Stuck in limbo and have to load a save. [*]SOFT/HARDLOCK: Soviet Attack, 2) Fall off balcony, can still time travel at will, but there's no way to get back up. Normally, you'll fail the scenario and it will restart, placing you on the balcony again. But game progression is permanently ruined if combined with being stuck in limbo from 1) [*]SOFTLOCK: Self-activating grenade in the weapon room after time traveling back to the hideout. Infinite loop of instant grenade activation killing me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAjvhjoz2hA [*]SOFTLOCK: Completed drumming minigame practice song, but the game didn't acknowledge my progress. Couldn't get out of drumming minigame and couldn't teleport out. My hands were locked to drumsticks and I couldn't grab any artifacts of power. [*]HARDLOCK: Scenario for approaching the V2 rocket broke. Noticed that the watch's dialogue wasn't playing anymore. Rocket did not launch after completing all steps. Impossible to complete the game. Luckily I could reload a manual save from 90 minutes earlier, and did not have my entire playthrough ruined. [/list] Despite the things I really liked about Wanderer, which are why I fought through all of this (and more!) to finish the game, I will warn against buying or playing this game.