As Far As The Eye Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)
For our As Far As The Eye Review, we need to build a mobile village and travel with our tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill trees, and hard choices. Ready to move?
As Far As The Eye Review Pros:
- Beautiful graphics.
- 441MB Download size.
- Graphics – smoothing slider.
- Three modes-campaign, play, and custom game.
- The campaign has five chapters. All chapters are open and selectable from the start.
- Resource management roguelike gameplay.
- Game-you controls a group of travelers who move their massive caravan around, getting resources and materials from the land to build structures in order to pass through the lands on your quest to the center.
- The whole game world is played out over a hexagonal board.
- Discover the land as hexes have to be discovered in order to show what they are.
- Maps randomize every run.
- Market-trade resources so you can get what you need or want.
- You can carry any excess materials to the next halt if you have space.
- Skill trees to unlock new abilities.
- Everything is determined by turns, each turn your player or production goes forward one cycle. Before committing to action it will tell you how many moves it will take.
- Camera control settings – rotation speed slider, movement speed slider, and zoom sensitivity slider.
- Set the level of in-game help.
- Cutesy animations and world design.
- You (the wind) whisper your commands to the pupils.
- Wave-the reason for you constantly going forward, you have a bar that shows your moves but also how close the wave is to wiping you out.
- The bar can show upcoming weather and any dangers that might appear.
- Halt-a is a stopping place.
- Custom game mode lets you pick one of four locations, pupils amount, rations slider, random/positive/random sliders, food, vagaries, seed number, and journey slider.
- The quick game has you choosing one of the four tribes and playing.
- No enemies only resource gathering and survival against nature.
- You unlock new stories, rewards, and tribes by just playing.
- The campaign is an excellent starting point.
- Kind of zen-like approach.
- Full camera control from zooming in and out, rotation, and free look.
As Far As The Eye Review Cons:
- The campaign is just a lengthy tutorial.
- Pacing is all over the place.
- No touchscreen support.
- Cannot use the stick for the menus and instead have to use the d-pad.
- Very slow starter.
- So much to take in.
- You have to play with the mouse and keyboard.
- No online interactions.
- Random unlocks can be more negative than positive.
- You have to unlock the three other tribes for quick play.
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As Far As The Eye:
Developer: Unexpected
Publisher: Goblinz Studio
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