Arctic Awakening

It has been a while since I played Firewatch. I remember I liked that game a lot. It was different, it had a cool story and it didn't take that long to play through. Looking at this game made me think it would be similar. Lot's of people comparing it to Firewatch helped too. Well, not so much. In Arctic Awakening the main character isn't very likeable. The writing is dull. The interactive parts aren't that exciting, or interactive. The puzzles are super basic and mainly require you to walk around and find a few things or switches. And the walking, the endless walking... This game took me almost 13 hours to complete. It probably could have been done in about 3 and would have been more enjoyable. This may be the first game I've ever left a review for (I'm old, I may have left a review and can't remember) and it is because it is so disappointing. I spent $25 on this and I feel like $10 would be asking a lot. I really wanted to like this game. Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever bought a game I didn't want to like. That would be pretty dumb if I did. Bottom line. If you like walking a lot and backtracking sometimes thinking you missed something, only to find that …

The game looks beautiful, sounds beautiful, and the story is really gripping (and beautiful) between episodes. Just be prepared to spend most of your time walking, for like 20 minutes straight sometimes, with little conversations between. I would recommend for the story alone, but you'll need to be patient.

This hit the spot as a chill walking sim with a decent story game that I was looking for. But it's not on par with the classics like Firewatch, The Invincible, Edith whatshername, etc. Plus the activist Devs just couldn't help themselves and forced an unnecessary biracial Lesbian relationship into the story.

As of writing this I finished the game, and I have to say I'm a little disappointed. I see what they were going for, behind the idea/theme backing the story but I think it was poorly executed. I've played multiple walking sims and I have to say that the pacing in this one is awful; there are multiple times where you are walking around and despite being a therapy bot, Alfie hardly proposes any thought provoking questions or dialog in these moments that could make those pointless stretches of time go by faster or actually somewhat feel essential to the story. I did I like some bits of the short comments with him to time to time but the majority of the topics and perspectives shared were really generic and dry not very intriguing. It took me around 7 hours and I think they easily could have fit all of the core moments and puzzles easily within 4. The puzzles were underwhelming, things as simple as picking up a key card on a desk to flipping on a couple switches just to proceed into the next area. I know it is hard to make a game, and I think they had passion behind it but I was disappointed. So unfortunately, I do not recommend.

Great game i truly liked this game and the feel of it and the story an did make me laugh a little at times, i did have few bugs an had to start a point again as the prompt to do a thing like start a fire or activate a wot ever would not happen but not sure if just something my end or a bug in a game, but i truly truly liked this game and it might not be for everyone but it a great walking sim with a good story and more.

It’s a decently good game, im going to go back through it to complete the rest of the achievements..my only complaint is just all of the wandering around & having to walk everywhere you go. 7.5/10