Night Stones

The main downside to this game is how short it is, only 3 hours. The game is fun enough, there is exploration, things to find, a few character upgrades, people to talk to and quests to do. I didn't encounter any bugs at all. It also looks and feels nice. The puzzles are very easy to solve. But the game doesn't do anything new. It is all very basic, "intro to game design" stuff. Asking price is too high in my opinion. It's not a bad game, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Bought this game after watching developer's Youtube video. Thoroughly enjoyed this game.

This is a simple little adventure game. The world and characters are cute and cozy, the graphics are nice and colorful, the music is appropriately bouncy, and the story and puzzles are simple, wholesome, and fairly obvious. It worked well for me on the Steam Deck, with no bugs or hitches. If you're looking for a challenge, look elsewhere, but this is a really nice adventure game for a less experienced audience. Great game to play with your kids. The full price of $20 might be a bit steep for the time it takes somebody like me to finish it (4.5 hours with no rush), but for the price I paid on sale, I'm very happy with it.

A nice little fantasy-themed version of "A Short Hike". If playing a cozy low-stress explorer sounds kinda fun, you'll probably enjoy this.

Puzzle solving short adventure game. Very much like Short Hike.

Это было классное приключение, немного душное, но классное!

That is one of my favorite games now. Thank you for this lovely piece.

enjoyed

Night Stones is a truly underrated gem. It feels like a hybrid between Zelda and A Short Hike, with a sprinkling of Animal Crossing flavour. I love the premise of this essentially playing like a Zelda game but without traditional combat (there is technically a little fighting, but the enemy encounters are solved like puzzles). I can honestly say I enjoyed Night Stones more than Breath of the Wild - BotW is overwhelmingly large and has a fatiguing number of mechanics and resource management systems that made the game feel like work by the end. Night Stones is the perfect antidote to that - stripping back all the survival stuff and letting you experience the adventure without the admin. My one irritation with the game was that I discovered there was a missable achievement quite late in the game. I made the effort to find all the collectibles, hoping to 100% the game, but now I'd have to start the game from scratch to get it just because I missed one NPC dialogue option. This nitpick aside, I still highly recommend Night Stones. It's amazingly well crafted for a tiny indie team; the level of polish is equal to an actual Zelda game. I look forward to playing the dev's next title!

Incredibly cute game. Completed in one sitting in 5 hours. I don’t see it having a lot of replay ability as it’s very set in what you can do. I wanted to go back and get the rest of the achievements now that I’m done buuuut I have soft locked my completed run by leaving the stone that you use to get up to the icy air vent in the up position and didn’t freeze the water so now I can’t go back to the world to continue playing. This means I will need to play it all over again which is fine I planned to anyway but it’s a little irritating as I wanted to find all the hidden items on the first play through. Good game, was bought as a gift when I was on sale for just £4.18 and I’d say it was worth that but don’t go in expecting a large world with lots to do