Haven Review (Steam)

Two lovers gave up everything and escaped to a lost planet to be together. Glide through a mysterious landscape, explore a fragmented world and fight against what’s trying to tear them apart in this RPG adventure about love, rebellion, and freedom.

Pros:

• Beautiful graphics.
• 4192MB Download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Controller support. (recommended)
• Graphics-fullscreen, resolution, v-sync, render quality, and brightness.
• Remote play together support.
• Drop-in/out co-op local and online via remote play.
• Third-person view.
• Can rebind controls for player 1 and player 2.
• Two difficulties-default and reduced.
• Fully voiced character interactions with multiple-choice options.
• Can skip cutscenes and fast forward dialogue.
• Tutorial pop-ups and dialogue at the start.
• Two characters Yu and Kay. You can swap between them at will as you travel as one.
• Flow bridges-fast ways to go between islands.
• Adventure RPG gameplay.
• Travel-you can walk around but you can also glide which is faster plus you can Drift and fast u-turn making it all easier.
• Crude rust-fly over it to get rid of it and collects samples.
• Interact with animals.
• Can replay old dialogue.
• Rust will hide plants and parts of the level.
• Fruit-grows and can be picked, you use it to combine them and cook new meals/dishes.
• Humour and innuendo aplenty.
• Nest-your home, your little ship where you can cook, sleep and so on. When in the nest you are in the first person and can see both characters.
• The combat-the d-pad is for the left player and button for the right, you press a direction/button to do an attack, it’s a case of once charged you can use it. Incapacitated enemies must be pacified in order to save them.
• In combat, you can hold the attack or shield button down and it won’t go until you let go.
• How you interact with the characters can change them in how they feel and act.
• Learn new abilities and enhance your stats.
• Plays a bit like a romantic counselor simulator.
• Camping spots- find these in the world and use them to-heal, cook, eat and sleep.
• Map-fills in as you play and also shows all the possible routes.
• Duo attacks with a qte style execution.

Cons:

• Slow starter.
• Minimal graphic settings.
• Drifting takes a while to get used to.
• A lot of loading screens.
• Gets choppy with audio cutouts a fair bit.
• Tedious gliding sections.
• No replay value.
• Never feels like conversation choices matter.
• When in the nest, it feels like you are a creepy voyeur as you fly around watching them sleep.
• If you don’t eat food before starting a new day then the characters will just whine about it.