FAR: Lone Sails

FAR: Lone Sails is a miniature masterpiece, no less great for its compact simplicity. A must-play for anyone interested in post-apocalyptic scenarios, atmosphere-heavy games, and low-key environmental narrative.

FAR: Lone Sails has quite a few awards and it is easy to see why during gameplay. Okomotive has done a beautiful job with their debut game of weaving together simple a simple story and gameplay with gorgeous visuals and soundtrack. If you're looking for a post-apocalyptic survival game with lots of zombies to kill, this won't be it. However, if a nice little journey over a dried-up seabed with a b...

All of these elements come together to make you embody the role of this lone captain. Your strange vessel will become your Millenium Falcon. Any harm that came to it gave me a little pang of sadness. This was my… ship? Train? Sandcrawler? Anyway, whatever it is, it was mine and my home. I became familiar with its layout, all the little tricks to keep it running and get it going with a little more ...

A puzzle platformer about a journey through an atmospheric wasteland, this game is a pinnacle of design brilliance.

Far: Lone Sails is a gorgeous little game. Like the machine that acts as your stalwart partner the whole way through, it can be clunky at times, but any bumps in the road are easily paved over thanks to some beautiful environments, plenty of exciting encounters, and the absolutely stunning music that accompanies it all. Its full of stressful challenges that made me truly care for the vehicle that ...

FAR: Lone Sails is an excellent journey through silence and desolation, across a world whose history is told through glimpses of what remains.  The bond that forms between vehicle and protagonist is expertly highlighted in a number of its moments, while the journey itself is brilliantly paced. Its puzzles aren’t demanding, but they’re just enough to keep you involved. Its focus lies clearly on atm...

The identity of the protagonist and their ultimate goal is never totally clear during the course of Far: Lone Sails. In this way, it recalls games like Inside and Little Nightmares; it creates a compelling narrative based almost entirely on a mysterious, horrific mood. Far: Lone Sails stands alongside other games in this difficult-to-define genre, but it also sets itself apart in a big way with a ...

Free to face the life that's ahead of me.

Initially, Far: Lone Sails seems like yet another 2D platformer with a dull color palette and a featureless, child protagonist. You follow what little instructions are given to guide your character to a hulking mass of steel covered in debris. That’s where the similarities to games like Limbo and Gris end. Taking control of your two-wheeled land-ship, you set out on a vague, but visually astoundin...

Have you ever watched a trailer for an indie title and thought to yourself, “Yeah, I get it. It’s one of those artsy titles more hell-bent on just looking pretty.” At a quick glance, that impression looks like it could apply to a title like Swiss developer Okomotive’s FAR: Lone Sails. Well, we've got some news for you; it's anything but.

A lonely and desperate journey through a beautifully bleak world. FAR: Lone Sails has you set sail across vast open lands on a ship that constantly requires attention and management. Are you able to defy all odds and pilot your vehicle solo to the very end?

Okomotive’s FAR: Lone Sails is a poignant journey of one person’s pilgrimage through a desolate world. Will they make it through? Taking care of your locomotive is one of the highlights of a short experience, which has beautiful backdrops and great music. With the stop/start nature of progression, can a great mechanic make a game special, or does there need to be something more tangible? It is a p...