This game is great, as all SuperGiant games seem to be. But please, PLEASE switch from "Mouse" to "Mouse and Keyboard". It's much much smoother that way.

Telling myself I don't need to buy Hades II yet, I decided to finally finish Pyre. It's such a a gorgeous, compelling game. The world building is so unique and incredible, the gameplay is a perfect example of easy to learn, difficult to master mechanics. Choices matter and affect the storyline and ending. My first playthrough was around 25 hours, but I'm probably going to play it again. Play this game!!!

As an avid player of all supergiant´s games I had high hopes with pyre. Sadly I just dont think that this game is for me, I completed it on the highest difficulty and I just didn´t click with the gameplay. At its heart this game is a sports game with RPG: mechanics mixed with a visual novel which sounds pretty interiguing but just didn´t work for me at all. The story is quite wierd, not bad but you are missing so much context on the world and even though you get snippets here and there throughout it still left me confused at points and unsatisfied at the end.
I think this game was a very brave experiment in design and realy shows that Supergiant has a lot of cool and intersting idéas but this time I think that the final product just wasn´t very fun compared to their other titles.
I´m not going to make this a negative review because I don´t think this is a bad game I just think that it falls short and doesn´t jive with my own preferences. Worth a playthrough if you like fantasy sports games otherwise you might want to skip it.