Far: Lone Sails cover

Far: Lone Sails 2018

Released
May 17, 2018
Genres
Platform · Puzzle · Simulator · Adventure · Indie
Platforms
PlayStation 4 · Android · PC · iOS · Mac · Xbox One · Nintendo Switch
Developer
Okomotive
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Where to buy

Physical

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Is it still worth playing?

The oceans have dried and ships lie on the beds, and after a burial you set off across the seabed in a large vehicle seen in cross section. It is a 2018 side scrolling puzzle platformer for Windows and the Mac, on consoles and phones by 2020. You run about inside it, feeding the engine, pressing the buttons, putting out fires and mending what breaks, and the constant watch on fuel and overheating gives it tension. New modules and puzzles outside add to it, with upgrades to find, no enemies and a landscape that can still kill you. It began as Don Schmocker's bachelor project in 2015, after Strandbeests and Stephen Biesty's cross section books. The cross section still makes the vehicle a house you keep alive while it moves.

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