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Season: A Letter to the Future
Close your eyes, take a deep breath and let yourself be carried away by the great journey of Season, a third-person atmospheric adventure bicycle road trip game. Explore the world through the eyes of a young woman. Collect artifacts and memories before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away.
Details
- Released
- January 31, 2023
- Developer
- Scavengers Studio
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure · Indie
- Publisher
- Scavengers Studio
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Season: A Letter to the Future Reviews
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Why do we live? In our review, learn how Scavengers Studio's SEASON: A Letter to the Future empowers you to answer that question for yourself.
Season: A Letter to the Future is a beautiful and melancholic slice-of-life adventure about cherishing and preserving the fleeting moments of life. However, for a game about understanding and embracing time, it doesn't lend itself enough time to blossom fully, making its rather dramatic conclusion less impactful than it deserves to be. Still, what's there is remarkable, making Season one of the freshest and most captivating video game experiences of this generation.
Season: A letter to the future is a melancholic and touching ode to the things we leave behind, while the world continues on regardless. It’s beautiful, and those of an inquisitive nature should step into its world to create memories of their own.
Season: A Letter to the Future takes you on a remarkable journey through a haunted yet hopeful land on the cusp of great change.
Season: A Letter to the Future is a third-person atmospheric adventure bicycle road trip game set at the end of one season, in which the young girl Estelle seeks to capture as much about the people and events as she can for future generations.
The grass feels wet and cool on your back. Dappled sunlight dances across your closed eyelids as a light breeze sighs gently. You breathe, deeply, inhaling the rich scent of earth and tasting the hint of blossom on the back of your tongue. Exhaling, you make a point of recording this precious moment. You carve these sensations into the bedrock of your memory before you stand up, climb onto your bicycle, and set off.
Rewarding exploration, enjoyable bike traversal and a gorgeous world make Season: A letter to the future a journey worth embarking on.
“SEASON: a letter to the future is an unforgettable road trip adventure that invites players to soak in its serene world.”
Season: A Letter to the Future, an indie title from Scavengers Studio, is a beautifully told journey of internal and external discovery. Look, I totally get it. I really do. We’ve been there, right? We’ve all Gone Home at some point. We are all aware of What Remains of Edith Finch. Artistic indies about self-discovery are nothing new anymore, but if we didn’t enjoy those more calming titles, those tiny oases of calm, then we wouldn’t be in this review. Right?
If you’re down with that vibe, you’ll find this a very relaxing experience with some entertaining worldbuilding and a few mysteries for suspense. However, being pretty much a one-off experience more like a movie may rub a lot of gamers the wrong way.
Season’s artstyle and gameplay are unique and fun, but because of its forgettable narrative and generic premise, it feels like yet another game that exists solely to win awards from Geoff Keighley.