The Way (2016)
Puzzling Dream · May 20, 2016 · Adventure, Indie, Action, Pixel Graphics, Platformer
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The Way price by region
The Way costs £0.40 in the United Kingdom, €0.45 in Europe (EUR), $0.56 in the United States, $0.65 in Georgia (USD), CA$0.90 in Canada, A$0.91 in Australia, NZ$1.10 in New Zealand, R$2.54 in Brazil and zł2.99 in Poland right now.
| Region | Best price | Official store | Key shop | Stores |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 United Kingdom | £0.40 −95% | £0.61 | £0.40 | 17 |
 Europe (EUR) | €0.45 −94% | €0.72 | €0.45 | 20 |
 United Statesyour region | $0.56 −96% | $0.65 | $0.56 | 19 |
 Georgia (USD) | $0.65 −96% | $0.65 | $0.79 | 14 |
 Canada | CA$0.90 −96% | CA$0.90 | CA$1.05 | 14 |
 Australia | A$0.91 −96% | A$0.91 | A$0.98 | 14 |
 New Zealand | NZ$1.10 −96% | NZ$1.12 | NZ$1.10 | 13 |
 Brazil | R$2.54 −94% | R$4.25 | R$2.54 | 14 |
 Poland | zł2.99 −94% | zł3.09 | zł2.99 | 15 |
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About The Way
Explore a mysterious alien planet and solve intricate puzzles to discover the secrets of eternal life and resurrect your lost love in this hand-animated sci-fi adventure. Inspired by classic cinematic platformers, The Way combines a gripping narrative about grief and obsession with mind-bending environmental puzzles set in a visually stunning retro world.
The Way tells a story about a member of space explorers team, who lost his beloved one and cannot accept her death. Finding ancient writings on eternal existence during one of his last expeditions makes him come back there in search of the meaning of life itself.
He will soon know that the planet has its own secrets and problems that he will need to face in order to get what he is looking for.
Game Features:
- Immersing sci-fi story
- Mind-bending puzzles
- Unique alien planet to explore
- Retro style rich with animations
- Inspired by Éric Chahi's masterpieces
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
The game is clearly inspired by the older cinematic platformers (Prince of Persia, Another World, Flashback) but becomes an exercise in frustration due to issues around checkpoints and character controls. The story is passable, and treads some basic sci-fi tropes. The main character's actions do not make them particularly likeable, but there's enough to see the game to its end. Probably the worst aspect of the game is the sparse checkpoints. These will force you to repeat multiple hazards and puzzles to progress for the slightest mistake, Some of the puzzles are well constructed, but are hampered by other parts of the game. The character's movement is stiff and unresponsive. You will get locked into animations that cause your death. You will often run or drop off edges to your death. You are expected to track things off-screen. The game mostly works if you hold down the run key for every movement (again, you will start doing this due to the repeated checkpoint restarts). Platforming requires precision positioning and timing, which feels directly in conflict with the puzzle-heavy focus, and is often the cause of returning to a checkpoint. The latter part of the game has one se…4 found this helpful
https://youtu.be/pJiiZNKCnzc After a great setup and narrative hook that momentum is lost due to sparce checkpointing and slow stealth sections.2 found this helpful
Some sections having pixel-perfect hitboxes, or requiring godlike reflexes were harder than Dark Souls, but overall I really enjoyed it, especially the visuals and music. It would be nice if the 2018 remaster came to Steam too.
The Way is not a platformer nor an arcade, it's mostly a cool scifi adventure packaged as a sequence of puzzles & minigames. Puzzles demand a lot of observation and patience, while minigames pretty often give you extremely narrow reaction windows in a game where controls aren't that super-finely tuned. Brave nostalgic-retro concept but even for 80's-90's standards it's not only difficult but unforgiving to the point of feeling simply frustrating and unfair. Sumarizing: It's very original and all, but i doubt they have had enough/honest independent beta testers. Not saying the game is bad, but it's definitely for a very specific kind of nostalgic-hardcore-retro-gamer. If you think you fit, go for it.
GG
Overall, I liked the game, but there are a few issues to keep in mind. The first part naturally blends puzzles with platforming and shooting; however, as the game progresses, the platforming becomes predominant and feels quite boring. While the game does a great job of presenting the story early on, after a while it is almost forgotten. After a long (too long?) series of combat and platforming sessions, the plot suddenly rushes to a close. In particular, the ending feels a bit rushed. I’d give it a 7 out of 10. Good, but not great.
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