Echo of the Wilds

This game expects you to solve super vague puzzles that are really based on chance because the areas are constantly randomized and shuffled around. You're running around most of the time not knowing where you're supposed to go or what you're doing and even with a walk-through it's a frustrating experience.

I've been playing various versions of this game since 2014, never having beaten it, until yesterday (2021) I really really dig this game. It pulls everything together in the end to make this assertation about the complexity of confronting our own problems, the way we repeatedly go up against them, and how we need to listen to ourselves. It resonates on a lot of my own feelings about needing to take breaks and recenter the self. It's a great game if you like puzzly point-and-clicks mixed with survival mechanics. Multiple difficulty levels let you play a much more puzzly game or more survival-focused game depending on what you prefer.

The recent update made this hidden gem much more accessible to players with a low tolerance for esoteric UI. This is a survival zen garden point and click adventure. It is great.

I tried it years ago and enjoyed the survival aspects of it, but it was not very apparent what there was, if anything, to the surviving. The last major overhaul has done a lot to clarify how you actually progress in the game and story, and I've really enjoyed revisiting the Wilds and finally seeing what was at the end of the journey.

Bought this back in 2015 and never managed to beat it, but I just came back around to it and managed to finish it! I love all the recent updates and I have to say I'm sad it's over! It's a very charming game with wonderful colors with some creepy themes. I definitely recommend this game :)

Amazing hidden gem that stays with you a long while after its over.

One of those hidden gems. At first I didn't expected anything much. But after couple of hours I was hooked and just wanted to keep going. And best part that game doesn't hold your hand, you have to figure out everything by yourself!

I am only satisfied to be done, not to have played it. I managed to get all the achievements through sheer willpower because no guide was up to date and helpful at the same time, and the Wiki was no help to me either. I think the puzzles and game play is too vague once you're really diving into the story, and once you're on your fourth go around after dying, one can easily lose the will to go on because cut scenes are unskippable.

Wonderful little game that gives the nostalgic feeling of 90s point n clicks combined with gradual progression through modern survival mechanics. The puzzles are excellent, not exactly difficult but definitely require some outside-the-box thinking. If you're a fan of Caiys' spookier games there is definitely some thing here for you as well.

Although I personally think this game is fine and play it occasionally, I could not in good conscience recommend it to anyone else. The language is absolutely obnoxious, the puzzles are boring, and the survival mechanics are the bare minimum required to keep the game from being a total slog. More than half of my playtime is from accidentally leaving the game open due to literally forgetting that I was playing it. Although there are some redeeming qualities about the game, I would not recommend that anyone buy this unless you can find it on sale and are the kind of person who can enjoy a very slow game with intentionally intolerable verbiage. The graphics may also be a turn-off for some people, but I don't mind them as I tend to like pixel art.