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Eastshade
Eastshade is a first-person, open world exploration game. You are a traveling painter, exploring the island of Eastshade. Capture the world on canvas using your artist’s easel. Talk to the inhabitants to learn about their lives. Make friends and help those in need. Discover mysteries and uncover secrets about the land. Surmount natural impasses to...
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- Released
- February 13, 2019
- Developer
- Eastshade Studios
- Genres
- Adventure · Indie · Open world
- Publisher
- Eastshade Studios
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Eastshade isn’t for everyone. But if you’re part of the subset of people looking for a relaxing and introspective experience, then I can’t recommend it enough. It’s a game that offers you a world to lose yourself in. Which I did, many times over. Eastshade is eager to share its story with you, earnestly and emotionally. And lastly, it’s a game that brought tears to my eyes by simply being beautiful. To love and be loved; to be fearful and fearless; to deceive and be deceived; to draw boundaries and break free. Eastshade reminds us that it’s these half-tones that paint our existenti…
A first-person art game that makes screenshotting an intrinsic part of play.
Eastshade is an immersive and contemplative adventure set in a quirky fantasy universe. In spite of some performance issues and underdeveloped mechanics, it achieves a memorable gaming experience.
Eastshade’s beauty and heart is undeniable, however the baffling amount of technical problems on console quickly begin to eat away at the goodness it has to offer.
It's definitely a shame that painting isn't more of a thing. But this really comes together. A slow, gentle, personal RPG, with neat little stories, characters I remember, and a real sense of having spent time in a special place. Oh, and last of all, in Eastshade if you want to get around a bit faster, you buy a bicycle. Yeah, it's exactly that sort of place.