Path to the Sky [official site] is ‘up’ on Steam Early Access, and ‘up’ is about as close as I can get to wordplay for this game about platforming your way up a set of platforms floating among the clouds, fighting enemies and gathering treasures as you go. There’s a new trailer below.
We covered Path to the Sky in July last year when the procedural platformer was but a set of GIFs in its creator’s eye. Now it has progressed to the state of a teaser trailer, which shows wallhopping and bow-and-arrow combat as its square-shouldered hero tries to climb higher and higher into the sky.
Hype gets a bad reputation. If you think of it as nothing more than advertising, then there’s always the chance that these screenshots, trailers, GIFs and promises add up to nothing more than disappointment and an empty wallet. But if you think those same things as a form of entertainment and a source of enjoyment in their own right, then you’ve got nothing to lose. You can board the hype train, look out the window, and take pleasure in whatever you can see. The destination doesn’t matter and there’s always another view around the next bend.
This month: purple explosions in Wings of Saint Nazaire, rope physics in Tim Cosmonaut, roaming hands in Return of the Obra Dinn, and procedural loveliness in Path to the Sky.
