Sable

My favorite game ever. You can think of it as a meditative game or an "art game", or a game for children. It works in all those ways.

Really wholesome game about growing up, sticking to the path and finding your purpose. Sometimes, things can feel like you're going in circles amidst an endless sea of sand, unsure where to go. It is the unexpected family we find among strangers that keeps us going, and the courage and perseverance that takes us there. Lovely soundtrack from Japanese Breakfast- an excellent group- and a very heartwarming tale. Game does feel slightly lacking or barren in some areas; there is no combat (or really danger of any kind) and sometimes exploration feels long and tiresome. Could benefit from like, some survival mechanics like needing to wear weather-appropriate clothing or finding food. Would make it feel more engaging while you complete the story.

Gorgeous but not my cup of tea

Я была в черве, я была на черве, я собирала червей, и, возможно, я ела червей..... Лучшая игра в жизни которая отожрала от этой жизни кусок в 30 часов потому что я не догадалась о существовании функции быстрого перемещения по карте с помощью клика по значкам локаций. Так или иначе, я упорно елозила на байке по карте чтобы переловить всех рыб и бабочек потому что НУ НАДО И мне понравилось, в этом пост-постапокалипсисе уютно, и туда хочется возвращаться. Горько-сладкая концовка о выборе пути (большая часть из которых про одиночество) и лишении волшебной технологии которая делает тебя неуязвимой. Надеюсь Сейбл найдёт своё место в мире в безумной маске сшитой из деток гигантского червя чуваком который отдал себя в жертву желудочному соку своей богини хаха

Sable is a really interesting case. It's good, not great for my specific tastes. I'm at 80% completion right now. The strong: The moebius-core aesthetic is peak. The world's really atmospheric and lovingly crafted. Full of novel points of interest, and places for you to just enjoy being inside of. I'd be fascinated to visit it in VR. Love everything it's aiming at- an open ended, explorable world not driven by combat or conventional game mechanics. The writing structure is really interesting; it's first person, so you get your character's internal thoughts woven thru dialogue with other characters. It also uses this to do heavy lifting of the subtlety of character interactions in leu of detailed animation or cinematography, or only having pure dialogue. The weak. Structurally, it IS just an open world game with no combat or comparable mechanics. You basically just have fetch quests, scavenger hunts, and climbing as gameplay pillars. It's got a similarity to a walking simulator: if that works for you as a vehicle to convey the thematic content, awesome, you'll love it. But for some, the illusion will break down, and they're going to feel like you're just the supplemental features of an pen world game. I'm somewhere in the middle. The writing will also be polarizing. It's got a certain progressive perspective that will make some consider it far more brilliant than it is, and make other despise it as far worse than it is. I personally vibe with what it's aiming for and the majority of it, but enough lines have this execution that feels subtly preachy in a way that takes me out of the moment regularly.

A sci-fi open world in the vein of Breath of the Wild with art direction inspired by Moebius is perhaps one of the best recipes for a game ever imagined, so the fact that the game is also good makes this an instant recommend from me. Simply riding around inside this living graphic novel is worth the price of admission alone. Going wherever your curiosity takes you, on a living hoverbike as endlessly customisable as the main character herself, means you truly get to make this journey your own as you immerse yourself in one of the most vibrant worlds ever rendered in a video game.

I liked the Moebius-like art style and the relaxed atmosphere of Sable. I liked discovering all the recordings from the crashed ships and I liked all the Eccria quests. But once I’d completed most of the game it just felt like a tedious collect-a-thon to try and get every achievement and I got a little bored with the open world. Overall I would recommend Sable as a companion game you to unwind from your main games or as a relaxing game you play every once in a while.

19年预告图出来时，还以为是一坨线条，还好多看两眼，这不是莫比斯漫画风格，果断入手，放在库里忘记了，2026年才第一玩。游戏画面一卡卡是故意调整成30帧以下，的但绝对拉满的绘画风格，和回归80年代探索型动漫才有的体会，稀缺的独立游戏中+顶流艺术，原价入手超值。

Sable would be a masterpiece if it wasn't so mechanically broken The game works half of the time, movement and camera are awful, most of the puzzles don't function as planned, some mechanics are straight-up broken and the whole thing runs like dogwater with audio cracks and frame skips. I've had to restart the game a few times to progress because something just decided to break: an NPC disappeared, a puzzle stopped working, something that was supposed to be moving, well, wasn't Giving it a positive for the gorgeous art and soundtrack, plus the fact that the experience and story were enjoyable, but hell was this frustrating. I was afraid the whole time of getting softlocked due to bugs