Thanks, John! Its a complex game to discuss, but I really enjoyed pulling this one apart and thinking about what made it special.

Thanks for the shout out, John! Pyre's always been a favorite of mine, and I simply cannot get enough of its soundtrack!

Pixelated Playgrounds (@bsushi.bsky.social @jgalecki.bsky.social) is one of my very favourite pods. They do spoilerful, amiable, thoughtful reviews, and hearing them gently disagree & tussle over the mechanics of Pyre was super fun. pixelatedplaygrounds.com/bookclub/pyre

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it. Excellent games too!

Yeah, I should just commit to this approach. I do want to see more and the game has excellent ‘long term play’ features with its character chapter summaries.

I guess that would make several of us in this thread. Didn’t take away from what I did play. The design and music, especially Paritio’s theme, was worth the price of admission.

Took the same approach and scraped by until I couldn’t. I kept wondering if there was a bunch of side content I was somehow neglecting? It didn’t feel like the game was expecting me to grind… so I didn’t 😅

I’ll echo the sentiments above. I think the path actions were better integrated into quests and exploration as well. I put a few dozen hours into this game then hit a head scratching difficulty wall. May revisit someday.

Loved the first one! Glad to hear, will check out on priority!

Thanks! That was from the excellent soundtrack of Cobalt Core: Epoch (Map) by Aaron Cherof