Leaving Lyndow

short but has such pretty graphics and music. worth the dollar I paid for sure. 9/10

As someone whose true home is out in nature this and eastshade are amazing games to explore in

This was fine, it's just there's barely anything to it. But I'm looking forward to playing the other game from this developer, I think based on this something longer with more substance will be great. So there's nothing wrong with this, there's just not much here at all. What's here is good though. I'm still going with negative on the review, since it didn't really tell a complete story or anything, so it just felt like a little taste. Like, I love ice cream, but I'd rather have no ice cream than just like a single spoonful, it's that kind of a thing. There was a bit of jitter/stutter with the camera, and when I turned TAA on once it started taking over my screen with a huge black blob. But otherwise performance was fine.

I got to know about Leaving Lyndow after trying out the demo for Songs of Glimmerwick. That demo impressed me so much, that I had to see what else the developer has done. Leaving Lyndow also happens to be on sale for 75% off and it’s known to be short, all buzzwords that made it easy to give it a shot. Leaving Lyndow is a fairly typical walking simulator game where you go to different locations, talk to NPC, read some notes and do a few mini-games (there aren’t many of them). What the game does best is bringing over the feeling of leaving a village behind along with its community through excellent writing, interacting with loved ones, beautiful/homey/warm graphics and soothing soundtrack. The amount of notes and dialogues are deliberate in adding to the world and they’re not too wordy, they feel perfect if you care about learning more. You won’t get to know much about the character you control (that’s not the point), but you will get to see how others handle you leaving and you doing some activities that feel nostalgic to the character. The world created feels lived in and that’s a pretty big accomplishment. The game doesn’t have any voice acting unfortunately, this could have a…

Serves more as a prologue to "Eastshade" than a standalone game. If you're interested in playing Eastshade, I do recommend, as there's a lot more to that game and playing this one is a good introduction. If not, this is merely a very short walking simulator that doesn't have enough context without the second game in my personal opinion. Check both games out for the full experience.

Utterly enchanting - I could imagine myself living somewhere like this...