Caravan SandWitch

Super relaxing game but keeps itself interesting with its story and its mechanics. Very fun!

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[h1]1 章クリアまで進めてみたものの[/h1] 探索系の RPG といったところでしょうか。オープンワールドを車で彷徨いながら、落ちている部品を見つけ出していきます。 イマイチ退屈な感じになってしまい、2 章にたどり着いたところでやめてしまいました。 誤訳なのか元からなのかは不明ですが、セリフと状況が異なっていたり、背景・世界観が伝わってこなかったりということもあり、ゲームの中に入っていけなかったというのもやめてしまった理由です。

Absolutely loved this game. Just finished it. Not a game style I normally gravitate towards but wow!! Definitely worth a play <3 I loved how easy it was to follow and how relaxed I was playing it. So many unique little quirks in the game. The storyline is beautiful - a little sad but beautiful nonetheless. The music in the game created such a calming atmosphere. I loved all of the exploration. You can really see the heart and soul in the creation and development. Opened my eyes to a whole new world of gaming - thank you!

I've had a lot of fun playing this game. It offers a really fun exploration-focused experience that remains chill, free of fighting or quick time events, just discovery and mild puzzle solving, with the main focus on narrative and world-building, which are all very rich and imaginative. The characters and the depth of the world and lore all kept me really interested.

Beautiful exploration game, fairly casual, with some puzzles sprinkled throughout :) Throughout the game you'll peel back layers of this world's history, and the relationships of the people within it. With the minimal exposition, with most revelations happening from talking with those around you, you get pretty close with the characters! The themes of knowledge being passed from one generation to the next are tied into the way you learn about the world, and are embodied by each of the groups and storylines in different ways. The game is also unabashedly queer without any in-universe mention of this being out of the ordinary, and the characters are shaped by a variety of cultural backgrounds from across Europe, where the game originates, which adds a lot of color to the already deep world. As far as gameplay, there isn't any combat, fall damage, vehicle damage, or health system, so all the focus is on the exploring. The Van that makes up your main transport is fast, snappy, and able to traverse incredibly rough terrain. Sauge (the player character) is likewise fun to control, and has a surprising amount of depth to some pretty simple movement. I had a lot of fun trying to climb around barriers/puzzles, and managed to do small skips on a few occasions :] Playtime is around 10 hours, could probably do it in less or a fair bit more, but I think I got to check out almost all the game had to offer. Does require some hearty specs to run at a high graphics level, but you should be mostly fine after knocking them down (lord knows why it starts at the absolute max). As of writing achievements are broken and there are a few untranslated dialogue lines throughout the game as a result of an update a few days ago, should be fixed soon, will amend when that occurs. You may notice a *lot* of posts and comments about how the developers are "woke" and "condoning murder". There were some review bombs around the time I first got the game last winter due to the representation of queer characters. It has nothing to do with the gameplay, you will not be forced to engage in lesbianism, some characters are just gay or use they/them pronouns. The people behind the game are lgbtq+, and made a couple posts on the Caravan Sandwitch twitter wishing support to American lgbtq+ folks after the last presidential election, then laughed at people who got mad, replying 'if you supported trump f off and uninstall lmao' (roughly). A while ago they tweeted "One year since the release of Caravan SandWitch!! Also a fascist got 360 noscope. What a week!” in reference to Charlie Kirk. There are people still today swamping discussions and reviews with 'woke trash' and 'devs celebrating murder'. Those are in regards to 2 twitter posts. Do not engage with that nonsense. Great game, good for a few days fun and a renewed sense of the importance of community and what it takes to keep it safe, 9.5/10

Im going to start off by saying this isnt a bad game per se, but i simply cant recommend it. especially for what it's priced at. Ill start off by saying i love the art style of the game, but thats about the only positive thing i have to say. The game felt more like an art project than someone actually trying to make a game worth playing. Its a short game, with maybe 4-5 hours of actual content, the rest is just fluff and fetch quests that dont really add anything to the game. I 100% the game in about 7 or 8 hours, it only says 10 because i left the game running while i took as break. Also apparently my achievements were bugged because i got none of them. Onto the game play itself, its clunky at best with a lot of jarring camera shifts, and some of the worst possible dialogue locations blocking the whole screen while youre driving someone in the van. Theres nothing challenging about this game and most of the time it feels like the devs are holding your hand through every puzzle, if you could even call them that. The programming as a whole was very sub par. It didnt really feel like a finished/ polished game. The writing is god awful. literally every character is gay except for that one straight couple that was forced to be interracial because god forbid a straight white couple exists in a world like this. Other than that every part of the writing of this story felt like it was written by a 12 year old in a creative writing class. It honestly feels criminal for them to be charging more than like $8usd for this.

Its pretty bland and boring despite the nice set up. I saw potential of a great cozy exploration but its more focused on the characters rather than the gameplay. The tools and mechanics, the so called progression and even just basic vehicle control is just not fun. Its not bad but just boring.