Passing By – a Tailwind Journey is a shocking exploration recreation about making an attempt to ship a letter by exploring floating islands along with your flying balloon ship.

In this recreation, you could have your stock full of things, your balloon ship, and quite a lot of little locations to discover. You’ll select the place to land, what to discover, and learn how to finest maintain your self fed and heat. It’s an journey survival recreation the place you have to to concentrate to what you’re doing and the place you take Curly, a younger balloonist. Your final aim is to ship a mysterious letter, however you aren’t actually positive the place to take it. So you simply go round and discover till you discover it.

Flying your balloon is easy; you’ll be able to management a change that lets your balloon go up and down, in addition to one other that sends it left and proper. If you go down, you will notice that you simply get hotter, whereas if you happen to journey up, you’ll get colder. You may want to alter your character’s clothes to match the climate so you don’t overheat or get too chilly.

When you see an island you need to land on, you’ll be able to throw out your anchor and hope that it hits the mark, then get off and discover the island. Many of those totally different islands have little puzzles to unravel, provides which you can choose up, and secret areas to seek out. It’s enjoyable exploring and seeing no matter you will discover, in addition to utilizing gadgets in your stock to unravel these little puzzles which are throughout the world. Though I’m not positive how opening the arms of swans will have an effect on the broader world, it was so enjoyable to take action and see the island come to life. The stability of needing to observe your wants – going close to fires when chilly, making certain you could have meals, and so on – provides extra problem to those puzzles, as you could determine how lengthy to spend in a spot based mostly on these wants. You also can select to skip some locations. Once you blow by an island, even if you happen to select to by no means land on it, it’s gone without end.

I solely obtained to see a small portion of the sport throughout my time at Gamescom this yr, however am excited to see extra as soon as the sport is out.



Passing By – A Tailwind Journey is presently in improvement, however within the meantime, you’ll be able to add it to your Steam Wishlist.

Jupiter Hadley

Jupiter is a prolific indie recreation journalist, writing for Metro UK, Big Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and plenty of extra, all with a give attention to smaller indie gems. She covers 1000’s of recreation jams and indie video games on her YouTube channel, letting each recreation have a second within the highlight. She runs indiegamejams.com, a calendar of all the recreation jams happening on the earth, judges many jams and occasions. Jupiter can be the Adept Games Wizard at Armor Games.