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The Eternal Cylinder
In The Eternal Cylinder, players control a herd of adorable creatures called Trebhums and must explore a strange alien world filled with exotic lifeforms, surreal environments, and the constant threat of the Cylinder, a gargantuan rolling structure of ancient origin which crushes everything in its path. This unique ecosystem is a massive, procedura...
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- Released
- September 29, 2021
- Developer
- ACE Team
- Genres
- Survival · Action · Adventure · Open world
- Publisher
- Good Shepherd Entertainment
- Platforms
- PC · PS4 · Xbox One · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S
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The Eternal Cylinder Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
The Eternal Cylinder is a gorgeous adventure game that features one of the most compelling stories I've seen in years. Its strict linearity may be frustrating for some, but that slight downside is vastly outweighed by this game's many strengths.
The Eternal Cylinder is quite sad yet somehow there is a delight in finding in the smaller moments: finding an egg and evolving are especially happy moments. It is complex yet simple, running from the big bad thing that constantly looms like the Sword of Damocles is easy enough, but exploring to find the way ahead isn’t always completely straightforward. The opposite emotions make the game feel deeply fulfilling. It’s not quite like anything else I’ve ever experienced, and I feel like it will haunt me (in the best way possible) for quite some time to come.
Ace Team has a reputation for bucking trends while proving their imagination goes beyond what you’ll find in most video games today. The Zeno Clash games showed us as much. And now they’re back again with The Eternal Cylinder to break our brains open and ask us have we really seen everything? No, Ace Team, we really haven’t. And I’m sorry for thinking so.
One of the most enjoyably weird games of recent years and yet surprisingly easy to grasp, with an engaging mix of action and survival gameplay – and a good dose of surrealist imagery.
A unique but limited vision of evolution and apocalypse.
Well, I’ll say this about ACE Team’s The Eternal Cylinder: it’s easily one of the most unique games I’ve ever played.
A charming and surprisingly approachable survival adventure outing for Ace Team’s outlandish world and character design, with more under the cylinder than you might have initially expected.