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Publisher Future Friends Games and Omno developer Studio Inkyfox have “tranquil adventure” game announced Kibu for PC (Steam). A release date was not announced.

Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:

About

Kibu is a tranquil adventure in the heart of the wilderness. As a solitary monk you must build a temple, brew delicious teas, and journey into the wilds seeking out ancient spirits. Carve out your own special corner of home in a beautiful, mysterious land.

Journey Through the Wilds

Embark on a tranquil adventure in a captivating wilderness, journeying through a range of unique environments and seeking out the ancient spirits of the land.

Explore mysterious lands, uncovering hidden secrets and unravelling the enigmatic stories of the world.

Harness the power of your staff as you strike out into the wilds, and master a tactile, flowing combat system to overcome hostile foes.

Find Your Place in the World

Create a sanctuary that is uniquely yours, building and customizing your own temple, forging a special and meaningful space within the world.

Turn your tools to farming and foraging, cultivating a vibrant garden and harvesting the riches of nature.

Dive into the art of tea brewing, concocting a variety of delicious teas with diverse effects to enhance your journey.

Watch the announcement trailer below.

Announce Teaser Trailer

Imagem: Studio Inkyfox Como ponto inicial, Kibu foi feito pela mesma desenvolvedora que fez Omno e compartilha a fluidez e a imersão desse jogo.  O estúdio Inkyfox está encarregado do desenvolvimento e a Future Friends Games está encarregada da publicação. A data de lançamento do jogo não foi anunciada até o momento. Neste jogo, você desempenha o papel de um monge solitário se aventurando no…

As the levels continue, the bigger each puzzle-arena gets, giving it a Journey-esque sense of scale; and the trickier the individual puzzle set-pieces get.

Each level uses abilities you learn along the way, chained together or in combination with ancient gear that you activate using your staff, and/or light energy you collect from plants and creatures in the form of little white cubes.

Generally the point is to figure out how to get to an inaccessible high or remote spot, usually to retrieve an “energy ball,” three of which are needed to activate the key puzzle that opens the way to a gate to the next level (which may have a puzzle of its own to solve first).

Other mechanics include various “carry the flame” challenges to activate puzzles, Zelda-temple-style “use the lever to tilt / slide / point a thing remotely” tasks, some “match this pattern” games, etc.

There are more of the energy balls per level than you need, and you get 100% if you get all of them. Each level has unique plants and creatures (all harmless), and you also get points for getting up close to catalog them all.

There are also two or more lore books to find per level which give you some flavour text, murals to reveal (one of which lists out the crowdfunding donors), and a little green flying squirrel-thing which acts as your companion, pointing you towards puzzle areas to solve.

If there are things I find irksome about the game, it’s:

it has really fiddly, mostly manual camera controls. It often leaves you looking at the ground when you need to look forward or up. A traditional “keep the character centered, follow from above and behind” 3rd-person camera would have been much better.

Certain puzzles have a countdown timer, which would be fine, except…

…the fiddly camera makes it much more difficult than it should be to complete timed dash jump sequences (I swear I did one particular one twenty times), or to see a teleport target on a far cliff in the one second before you plummet to your temporary death, and so on.

In a related quirk, you really need to align the character and your camera to dash jump in the right direction. The number of times I’ve jumped sideways or skewed off-target…

That said, the minimal art style is appealing, the music is really nice, the creature and level design is varied and fun.

I find myself hoping that as I progress I’ll unlock some sort of true flight capability because there are structures atop cliffs or glimpsed during cutscenes that I want to explore.