A Winding Path

Review

The sea has disappeared, and to make it worse, it hasn’t rained for ages. Play as a rainmaker who needs to get people together for a feast of happiness and solve the mystery of why the sea vanished. Armed with a Lyre that creates a cloud of rain for a few seconds when played, the rainmaker will have to understand and help people, as well as rinse them a few times, in the fantasy world of A Winding Path. 

A Winding Path is a walking simulator adventure developed and self-published by Three Eyed Games on the 26^th of August 2021 on the Steam platform. The game is also available on Nintendo Switch.

What a lovely little game set in a black-and-white hand-drawn world where stick people live; I was a bit uncertain as to what to expect from this game. It’s pretty much a storytelling game where your character will move from one place to another and figure out puzzles. Most of these puzzles are tasks you’ll receive from an NPC to complete; for example, talk to someone or find something and come back. There are a couple of mechanical puzzles where you have to put boxes on a button on the floor type-of-thing, but that’s it.

The rainmaker will visit a few places in this adventure. The first area will provide more of an understanding of the story with a few little puzzles. Then, he’ll fly over to a larger area where he will be visiting five different locations. This will be where most of the interactions will occur, and you’ll also have a sort of archery competition to attend. I think the developers really put some thought into creating variety, which is refreshing because the game is a bit on the slower side.

As you complete some of the tasks, you’ll receive a drewdrop. This drewdrop will automatically be placed in a book when you visit the temple, which will unlock some hats your character can wear for fun. There are 12 drewdrops to collect in total.

It’s an interesting little game that you’ll probably finish within 5 hours of gameplay, but there is not much replayability, I am afraid.

I like the black and white sketch-style graphics and the story. In terms of the controls, you’ll play this game with your keyboard.

Review written by THE CPT FROGGY for Zeepond.com

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