reviewed Isles of Sea and Sky

A really neat game that combines sokoban puzzles with Zelda-style exploration and secrets and unlockable abilities. Had a great time playing this with my brother, the puzzles are pretty clever and there’s lots of really fun mechanics to play with. My only real complaint is that the game doesn’t do a great job signposting if you have the necessary abilities/unlocks for a puzzle to be solvable, and even worse, there are several extremely conspicuous places that I wasted a bunch of time looking for secrets in only to look it up and find out there’s nothing there… yet. Turns out they’re related to some planned future content for the game, but for the moment they’re just annoying red herrings that occasionally get in the way of the otherwise very enjoyable secret-hunting.
Reviewed on Jun 10, 2024