Steampunk may be a little overplayed these days, but Far: Lone Sails stands out from the top hat and techno-monocle crowd. Its stark, shifting palette of whites, reds and dark blues, a bleak and empty world that feels enormous around your tiny character, and the centrepiece of the action: your creaking steam-powered land-ship.
In this quiet post-apocalyptic adventure, your tiny little plains-wanderer is tasked with maintaining and singlehandedly crewing this enormous vessel across the great plains of a long-dry seabed in search of civilisation out in the wastes. It also launches today.
Boom! The game is finally out. :D We really hope you enjoy playing it. If you're still on the fence about it, maybe our launch trailer can win you over? Check it out here:
come launch we're happy to offer the game's soundtrack and a digital artbook as DLC for anyone interested in delving deeper into FAR: Lone Sails' world!
The digital artbook consists of 37 pages full of concept art, sketches, and 3D models of the most remarkable characters, buildings, and landscapes you will find in the game. It will also reveal more of the game’s backstory. Here's a preview:
The soundtrack offers 53 minutes of original music recorded for the game by composer Joel Schoch with the help of orchestral musicians. This includes the game's trailer music and 20 more stunning tracks.
There were plenty of things to play, too, and it was arguably the strongest year yet - with studios big and small showcasing fascinating new games, and some truly innovative things to play them with in the Leftfield Collection, RPS area and elsewhere.
As with previous years, this isn't a definitive list, but a personal selection from the team at Eurogamer as we roamed the show, and will hopefully serve as something to keep an eye out for in the coming months.
as we're slowly closing in on our May release day, there are still a few select opportunities to check out FAR: Lone Sails before it's out! We skipped all the unimportant side events like PAX East and GDC to bring the game to where it's really at:
BLON Festival, Klaipeda (LTU), April 12-15 2018 http://www.blon.lt/en/ (including dev talk!)
We're not doing any demo version bs either, you get to play the full game! Well, until the person queued behind you accidentally pulls the plug that is...
as we're slowly closing in on our May release day, there are still a few select opportunities to check out FAR: Lone Sails before it's out! We skipped all the unimportant side events like PAX East and GDC to bring the game to where it's really at:
BLON Festival, Klaipeda (LTU), April 12-15 2018 http://www.blon.lt/en/ (including dev talk!)
We're not doing any demo version bs either, you get to play the full game! Well, until the person queued behind you accidentally pulls the plug that is...
There may be no new ideas in games, but if you mash up enough concepts, you’ll get something close enough to unique. Take Far: Lone Sails for example, a post-apocalyptic steampunk sailing puzzle-platform simulation adventure. Bet you never thought you’d be playing one of those, or for it to look quite so lovely.
The first game from Swiss outfit Okomotive, Far: Lone Sails tasks you with singlehandedly captaining your rickety wheeled land-ship across a dried-out ocean bed, in search of shores unknown. It’s out this May, and we’ve got a quietly atmospheric debut trailer within.
It's been nearly two years since we took our first (and last) look at Far: Lone Sails, a game we described as "a weirdly charming roadtrip through the post-apocalypse." You play more of an engineer than a pilot: Instead of driving, you control your oversized land yacht by moving between various stations, trying to keep all the systems working as they should. The name of the game is simply to keep moving, as you follow the trail of your people, explore buildings and ruins, and discover the story of "a civilization on the run."
It's clearly not going to be a happy, upbeat experience, but publisher Mixtvision said that it's meant to be more of a contemplative experience, punctuated by "demanding situations that call for quick wits and thoughtful management of resources." What you won't have to deal with, however, are zombies, mutants, or any other denizens of the irradiated wasteland.
"True desolation manifests itself more subtly than slashing away at the undead," Mixtvision said. "It’s only you and your machine vs. the big nothing."
Far: Lone Sails reminds me quite a bit of The Final Station, another 2D journey across a desolate, end-of-the-world landscape, and based on that alone it has my interest. But the muted beauty of the trailer and the promise of slow-burn environmental storytelling rather than wholesale zombie slaughter have my expectations elevated: I really want to play this game.
Far: Lone Sails is scheduled for release on May 17 on Steam.
with our intended release window of Q1 2018 slowly coming to a close, it is high time for an update. The team has been hard at work moving crates, oiling cogs and painting clouds. But there are a lot of clouds in this game, so we need just a little more time...
FAR: Lone Sails will be out on Steam on May 17th, 2018!
I hope, it is not too much of a wait for you lovely people. We're truly thankful for everyone following us on this ride. To hopefully keep your interest up, we're happy to show you some new bits of gameplay!
