As Far As The Eye

An adorable resource management game featuring poncho-wearing creatures that hold balloons. A strategy game of optimisation where every decision matters and where every decision is interesting. A surprise gem!

As Far As The Eye is a charming rogue-like resource-management game which brings the player into a truly relaxing atmosphere, despite its strong strategic system.

As Far As The Eye is an interesting title, but it feels more artistic than functional. It is a perfectly serviceable game and it has lovely production values, but this is not the kind of title you look to for depth or range. On the other hand, if you want a specific, focused peaceful survival experience about tribes making their way to a safe place and don’t mind this being more of a puzzle than a proper strategy game, definitely give this little indie title a try.

As Far As The Eye is a fun little turn-based, strategy game set in a vibrant world full of adorable creatures. Whilst there's a lot to learn and manage, this quickly becomes a rewarding and satisfying experience.

The nomadic lifestyle translates into an interesting take on the resource and management genre, that is more interesting for its ideas than its execution. However, those who fancy a more contemplative slow going game will find solid goal-oriented challenges in this journey back to the source.

Issues aside of UI problems such as losing villagers, hard to click, and so on, the general pace of As Far As The Eye belie its "relaxing" appearance. Requiring a very strict, lucky, and strategic play from the beginning knocks a lot of the fun off. With how much dedication there is simply to food and not starving, it leaves little room for exploration, trying new things, or really anything beyond a narrow strategy. It is not that the difficulty ruins the game, it is that the difficulty and luck swings require such a narrow avenue to take, getting in the way of fun.

While turning off frustrating features is a blunter solution than seeing them integrated into a better-balanced game, As Far As The Eye has a grounding in something really beautiful. I look forward to the opportunity to experience the game I saw parts of underneath its less well-implemented elements. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the one I got to review.

Because some low IQ try hard gave the game 0/10 without clearly ever playing it, and because of their really un-funny nonsense fake side story, I thought fairness was warranted. I too can go simply by the trailers and score, let's say 6 for balance.

The tutorial never went past the first screen. None of the controls changed this. Looks nice, though.

I was at a coffee shop the other day and overheard one of the devs talking about this game. They said, "It feels like all of us are working on the visuals - do you think we should have someone focus on the gameplay? And also one of us should spend an afternoon ironing out this mess of a 'story' we've built. You know, so there's some cohesion between the many disparate elements of this game. I worry that people will be hooked by the pretty visuals, but as soon as they try the game for even a few minutes they'll realize it plays like garbage, and then they'll go to metacritic and give it a well-deserved 0/10 review because we're selling it as a game and not a visual novel with a poorly-communicated story."