While I wait for other games to capture my interest (sorry, Jagged Alliance 3, but I left that series behind with the first title), I saw Gylt pop up on Steam, and thought it sounded like a nice diversion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So far, so good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gylt didn’t just come out; it was actually released in 2019 as a Stadia exclusive, but Gylt disappeared with Stadia when Google shut it down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thankfully, the developers pushed it back out now and it’s available for most major platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The game’s core premise is you are a little girl, your sister went missing, so you’ve been plastering flyers all over town. You get chased by bullies, and end up transported into an alternate Tim Burton-esque dimension of your town where things get wild and scary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overall, it plays a lot like A Plague Tale crossed with Stray, and the stealth is reasonably solid. Combat isn’t really combat; you’ve got a flashlight you can play with, but otherwise, you’re doing your best just to find your sister in the weird dimensional rift of your home town while avoiding the monsters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The game is a bit heavy-handed in delivering on the core premise, and even though I am only a couple hours into it (the game is apparently quite short, coming in at around 5-12 hours depending on how you play), I have a pretty good feeling about why your sister disappeared thanks to the title and a lot of visual set pieces in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So far I’m having fun just hopping in and playing for 30 minutes at a time, so expect a full review to come next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"