Dragon's Wake

Alright, first let's talk about the positives. The art is really really nice for a small indie dragon game, and the plot and interactions with the world are also very enjoyable. The two story paths that there are, which I will not be giving spoilers for, feel distinct and like you have actually made a difference. Now for the criticisms. While the difficulty in achieving both story ṕaths is fun, and I'm not sure if this is just me, but figuring out the best path has quite a few components to it that would take several playthroughs of an otherwise short game. If you like it, that's great, but if you're feeling worn from the jankiness of the controls which I think are supposed to be more precision platformer then you're unlikely to replay it. Secondly, the controls: It would on ocassion feel like the controls which had been consistently doing one action for the past 15 minutes would start behaving in an entirely different way. That's the only reason I didn't finish out the "bad" story path in the game. Overall I think this game is definitely worth trying now or on sale, as the price is exactly where I'd play it for the 3-4 hours at most that you'd get from it.

I will say, I enjoyed the game, the final boss is quite the difficulty spike, but if you understand the game mechanics enough its not that hard. For what seems like this devs one and only game, its not half bad, and for the price, it could be slightly longer. As it is about roughly an hour or so's time not including time to get all achievements and such. The game overall is very nice, if not quite dark at times, you'll understand why as you play. Not only that, but while the game does have multiple endings, unless you know most of the tricks to doing as certain thing at a certain point in the game, it becomes more or less redundant or will feel pointless to keep playing that save once you know you've messed something up. The true ending is the least dark ending, which involves basically 3 achievements prior to it in succession, as well as makes the final boss EVEN harder than it would be otherwise. All the difficulty problems aside (AND THOSE ANNOYING GHOSTS!). If you like a quick game that has a bit of an open ended story no matter how you finish it, and its on sale, I'd say at the very least give it a try. It seemed like in the true ending the dev hinted at a sequal in the making, but considering this game was made back in 2015, I wouldn't really hold out any hope for it at this point. Chances are something happened to them or the project or something if this has been their only game since all the way back in 2015.