William and Sly

Been a fan of Lukas since The Everloom. This game proves once again that he's a master of minimal gameplay mixed with immersive, dreamlike landscapes. I 100%'d this game and beat all three of his Flash games (available for free on Steam btw), and I'd gladly play anything he makes in the future. Thank you for this beautiful game!

I used to think "wow this game is so beautiful" about the flash games, and now there is a 3D version that takes my breath away. Genuinely a spiritual healing experience, Im sad for the people that dont know the flash games so they have a hard time finding this one; it deserves so much more attention. For people who find this randomly - just relax and play the game, it is worth every penny

Another calming collect-a-thon platformer from Lucas Paakh, the creator of the previous two. Making the jump to 3D and tripling the amount of mushrooms to collect in the process. Alongside mushroom hunting, there are cursed stone obelisks scattered around, and you have to collect "blue essences" from various plants and animals to destroy them, creating new plants and animals you can draw blue essence from with some hiding mushrooms and some giving movement abilities like super speed and infinite air jumps. The map is huge, but especially with super speed it doesn't take more than a few minutes to cross. There's also various plants around the map that will launch you, creating something like a fast travel network, but each plant only launches you in one specific direction so there can be some routes that take longer one way than the other. The game has tank controls, which took some getting used to. Movement can be clunky in places, particularly on steep mountain slopes, but none of that was enough to drag the game down. The one thing I did miss was the ability to manually adjust the camera. It automatically pans left and right as you hold A and D, which you can do without mov…

I remember playing the original flash games when I was probably around 3rd or 4th grade. About a few years later that's when I heard about the 3rd game for the first time. I've always love exploration games + animal simulator games especially when I was younger. I continue to play games with those same elements (such as Rain World, Wolf Quest, Lost Ember to name a few) The camera around the fox is a little clunky but honestly it does help when trying to climb up those steep hills. The soundtracks of the original flash games will always have a special place in my heart & mind.

i've ultimately decided to mark this review as positive, because despite it all i *did* have fun with this game and i can respect the amount of effort the dev put in - it's a gorgeous artstyle (and soundtrack!), with an almost watercolour-like feeling carried over and translating very well from W&S2... ...but, that being said, this game feels *very* unfinished, and for its price, that's not really acceptable. my main gripe is the camera: you frequently go off-screen when moving backwards or using certain powerups, and you cannot control up/down or zoom in/out, which makes more tight areas immensely frustrating to navigate. i feel like i'm playing an early-mid development prototype in the way that there's little to no SFX, story events or the minigames required to get certain items feel like placeholder cutscenes with no real fanfare to mark beginning/end, powerups are hilariously unbalanced and there's just a thousand little rough edges that should have been sanded down. despite all that, however... at the same time, it's somehow still weirdly compelling and relaxing to play? there's just something about it that matches the OG flash games - an almost lonely dream-like vibe, a…

Good game! Very nostalgic if you played the original games as a kid like I did. The music is lovely and the overall atmosphere is just top notch. I spent a lot of time just running around the map without trying to accomplish anything in particular. I think the gameplay of the first 2 games translates well into 3D. If I had just one nitpick, it's that your character is so small and the world is so big that sometimes the scale gets a bit ridiculous. I literally lost sight of Sly a few times because he goes so FAST and is so tiny it's like trying to keep track of a mosquito buzzing around your head. But most of the time I think it works to give you a sense of being a small woodland creature exploring a vast picturesque landscape.