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It will be years before a game made by the big budget software houses like Ubisoft or EA is brave enough to attempt anything remotely similar, but The Path shows promising signs that gaming is starting to grow up.
95
This review does not tell you much about the game because if I started talking about it I would spoil the experience for you. Unlike all other reviews (at least so far) where you can talk about key features or experiences if I did that it would be wrong. What I can say is that The Path is an experience of exploration and emotion. You should enjoy the game in small doses and not rush your way through because it is a slow experience but a wildly artistic one.
92
An experience like no other, The Path is as unique and engaging as it is unnerving.
91
Not an example of “games as art,” so much as a work of art deftly supported by a game.
90
Now play it, because I desperately need to talk to someone about it. [June 2009, p.100]
81
The Path is art in videogame-form, and its weird ways have the potential to elevate it to the position of one of the best Indie-Games this year.
80
The Path is not a game, it's art. And damn good art too. If you're open to it, try it and draw your own conclusion.
80
The path doesn't take the most obvious course. It doesn't have a great control scheme. It doesn't even have a good one, to be honest, but it doesn't need it to be a very immersive experience.
80
It's slow to unfold and simple to play, but you won't soon forget this extraordinary work of interactive fiction.
79
An art connoisseur will be in raptures over the perfect, highly stylized look of The Path. A gamer will walk about the forest for 10 minutes and uninstall it. And both will be right in their own way.
