inktail:clanfulgurite:
mls-classics:hightechzombie:
Eidolon is...
Eidolon is a hard game to sell.
It’s a game about exploring a huge area - mountains, lakes, hills, forests - and finding mementos and diaries, which slowly start forming a story. There are mild survival aspects, but since food and timber is plenty, it’s almost impossible to starve or die. Just don’t hug a bear.
"What’s the point in a open world that has no danger?" one might ask. The answer is walking. The answer is exploration. The answer is getting lost.
This game is the closest approximation to what exploring places actually feels like. The map is just a piece of paper and gives no clue about your current location. You start marching north, thinking that you figured out where you are right now. Then you stumble upon a river. Something is wrong. The map says there shouldn’t be a river. You’ve been drifting west because you wanted to circumvent that mountain.
And now you are lost, but it’s not a bad thing. You set up camp and follow the river in the morning. You will find mementos, try to shoot a fox and fail horribly. Pick up mushrooms, find a spying glass, notice weird steel complexes in the distance, approach them. Most have fallen down and look broken.
You follow a breadcrumb trail of newspaper articles, notes and letters. Find a half-submerged settlement peaking from a shallow river-swamp. The music changes according to environment and weather, but stays unfailingly beautiful.
Eidolon is perfect for people who enjoy hiking and exploring nature. It’s just the best thing for evoking a sense of grand space and being lost.
Got this on an indiecade sale and I keep eyeing it. Maybe a night I’m burned out on GW or shootymen…
Oh my, now this looks right up my alley. Such a beautiful time sink you’ll be.
You had me at exploring without dying
