Europa

Europa is a relaxing, emotional journey through a snippet of human life on a terraformed moon. With easy to pick up mechanics and a short playtime, this is a must have for those looking to complete a game quickly.

Europa is a gorgeous, short adventure that tells an intriguing tale throughout, and it runs wonderfully on the Steam Deck.

With spectacular landscapes and soothing music, Europa is a deeply zen experience - yet is also capable of delivering some hard-hitting messages.

Europa is a peaceful experience while still managing to be a compelling 3D platformer in its own right. Despite the utter lack of any threat, it never stops being fun thanks to its gorgeous visuals and simple gameplay.

A brief, joyous exercise in curiosity and exploration, that’s at least as much about atmosphere and the feeling of traversal, as it is about your destination.

Europa is a beautiful adventure, that combines simple puzzles with emotion filled music and free flowing traversal throughout a gorgeous landscape. It truly is a Journey like experience, I just wish it had leaned into that even more.

Narrative games sometimes struggle with balancing the flow of gameplay and storytelling. For Europa, the team at Novadust Entertainment has managed to keep the pacing tight throughout the entire experience, ensuring that the gameplay doesn’t detract from the story, and the tale doesn’t stop you from taking to the skies. Even if the journey has a few rough edges, Europa is an immersive and thought-...

Jump and glide your way across a mysterious moon in puzzle platformer Europa.

Sometimes you just want to pick up a game and shut your brain off. Hence why games like Abzu, A Short Hike, and Journey are so popular. Europa instantly grabbed my attention thanks to its beautiful Breath of the Wild inspired art style, exploration-based gameplay, and promises of a captivating narrative. All that remained to be seen was if Novadust Entertainment could deliver on their vision.

Coming into Europa, I had no idea what to expect. Indeed, before I mentioned in a chat with other Wccftech folks how I like to cover indies, and I was going to look for one to give a bit of coverage, Europa wasn't even on my longest distance of radars. Unlike the Europa around Jupiter, the Hubble Telescope would have had little chance of picking this up. It would have been a shame, too, because yo...

If you’re anything like me, then your October is filled with dark, grim, and spooky games first and foremost. So a lighter game like the 3D platformer Europa from developer Novadust Entertainment and publisher Future Friends Games might just be perfect to take a little break from all of that. In theory at least. In practice, you should rather look elsewhere.

Yet, while Europa is not a game I can recommend without some reservations, what I admire most about it is its unwillingness to square the circle of its gameplay and narrative dissonances. Having seen where the story lands, I can safely say the contrast is not unintentional on the part of the developers. And while I do find myself personally bristling at the more hopeful inclinations, I admire the ...