LOST EMBER

Item: LOST EMBER
Rating: 78
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-03-30

Summary

Stunning visuals create a beautiful experience.
Relaxing soundtrack enhances immersion.
Family-friendly, calm, and relaxing gameplay.
Confusing level design leads to navigation issues.
Clunky controls feel unresponsive.
Repetitive gameplay becomes boring.

Categories

Exploration Single-player Story Walking Simulator Linear Progression Collectibles Animal Possession

Reviews (sample size): 408
Helpful reviews: 82%
Unhelpful reviews: 18%
Protest reviews: 0%

78%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
22%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 940
Negative points: 604
Gameplay points: 230
Perf. points: 58
Rec. points: 325
Misc points: 56

Point	Description	Importance
Stunning, beautiful visual presentation Description The game is visually stunning, featuring breathtaking graphics, a vibrant color palette, and diverse, well-designed environments. The art style balances realism and simplicity, creating a visually appealing and immersive experience that encourages players to take screenshots. Importance 96%	The game is visually stunning, featuring breathtaking graphics, a vibrant color palette, and diverse, well-designed environments. The art style balances realism and simplicity, creating a visually appealing and immersive experience that encourages players to take screenshots.	96%
Relaxing, immersive soundtrack Description The game features a memorable and well-integrated soundtrack that enhances the overall atmosphere and emotional impact. The music is relaxing, calming, and perfectly complements the gameplay, creating a peaceful and immersive experience. Importance 88%	The game features a memorable and well-integrated soundtrack that enhances the overall atmosphere and emotional impact. The music is relaxing, calming, and perfectly complements the gameplay, creating a peaceful and immersive experience.	88%
Relaxing, family-friendly experience Description The game is relaxing, calming, and family-friendly, with simple mechanics and no violence. This makes it accessible and enjoyable for a wide range of players, including children, teenagers, and adults. Importance 80%	The game is relaxing, calming, and family-friendly, with simple mechanics and no violence. This makes it accessible and enjoyable for a wide range of players, including children, teenagers, and adults.	80%
Compelling, emotional story Description The game features a compelling and emotionally resonant story that explores themes of love, forgiveness, loss, and redemption. The narrative is well-written, with surprising twists and turns that create a strong connection to the characters and evoke emotional responses. Importance 38%	The game features a compelling and emotionally resonant story that explores themes of love, forgiveness, loss, and redemption. The narrative is well-written, with surprising twists and turns that create a strong connection to the characters and evoke emotional responses.	38%
Unique animal possession mechanic Description A core mechanic involves inhabiting various animals, each with unique abilities and realistic movements, to explore the world and progress. This animal-possession mechanic adds a unique and enjoyable element to the gameplay, allowing players to experience the world from different perspectives. Importance 38%	A core mechanic involves inhabiting various animals, each with unique abilities and realistic movements, to explore the world and progress. This animal-possession mechanic adds a unique and enjoyable element to the gameplay, allowing players to experience the world from different perspectives.	38%
Emotionally impactful ending Description The game's ending is particularly impactful, leaving a lasting impression and evoking strong emotional responses, even tears. This suggests a powerful and memorable conclusion to the game's narrative. Importance 20%	The game's ending is particularly impactful, leaving a lasting impression and evoking strong emotional responses, even tears. This suggests a powerful and memorable conclusion to the game's narrative.	20%
Fun, unique core gameplay Description The game has fun and interesting core gameplay mechanics and a fascinating concept that is unique and refreshing. The controls are easy to handle, and the game is immersive, making it enjoyable for new players. Importance 10%	The game has fun and interesting core gameplay mechanics and a fascinating concept that is unique and refreshing. The controls are easy to handle, and the game is immersive, making it enjoyable for new players.	10%
Focus on discovery and themes Description The game focuses on themes of discovery, self-discovery, hope, life, and nature, offering a contemplative experience. Players are rewarded for thorough exploration with collectibles and alternative paths that complement the game's universe. Importance 7%	The game focuses on themes of discovery, self-discovery, hope, life, and nature, offering a contemplative experience. Players are rewarded for thorough exploration with collectibles and alternative paths that complement the game's universe.	7%
Short and sweet experience Description The game is relatively short in length, providing a sweet experience that is great for passing the time or enjoying a first playthrough. The gameplay style is varied, and the game has replayability due to hidden collectibles. Importance 5%	The game is relatively short in length, providing a sweet experience that is great for passing the time or enjoying a first playthrough. The gameplay style is varied, and the game has replayability due to hidden collectibles.	5%
Variety of collectibles Description The game features a variety of collectibles, such as relics, pots, and flutes, that provide neat information about the game world. Some collectibles even include pop culture references as Easter Eggs, adding a fun and unexpected element to the game. Importance 4%	The game features a variety of collectibles, such as relics, pots, and flutes, that provide neat information about the game world. Some collectibles even include pop culture references as Easter Eggs, adding a fun and unexpected element to the game.	4%