Bokida – Heartfelt Reunion
Bokida – Heartfelt Reunion takes place on a dormant, seemingly monochromatic world of light that gradually reveals its beauty. Experience freedom while exploring an intriguing environment. Journey, using your abilities to reunite two planets who were separated a long time ago.
Features
- Explore a stark environment rich with the potential for playfulness
- Change the world around you, building and altering massive structures
- Solve puzzles to radically transform the landscape
- Relax and enjoy the experience of an intriguing world rich with mysteries
Bokida’s setting is defined by two worlds: the vast and open light world which invites exploration; and the dark world, home to another realm of mystery. These two gigantic entities have been separated for a very long time, but this is about to change.
Like two lovers longing to reunite after having been kept apart for far too long, these two worlds finally have a chance to be as one again.
Be the messenger. Awaken the light world, guide the dark world, and help reset the equilibrium that has kept the lovers apart.
At the core of the experience rests a powerful tool. Create colorful structures with the abilities it grants, cut and sculpt them with precision and clear away cut-off fragments. Express your creativity and navigate the massive, open world however they you wish.
Exploration revolves around the playful manipulation of this tool to engage with and harness the virtual environment. Bring life to the canvas of the computer screen by adding your touches of color. The initially dormant game world is transformed and turns into a place of beauty. Discover majestic landscapes to roam and dive into another reality…
Game Discussion
Steam User 0
Bokida - Heartfelt Reunion is an epic, capital-A art game. I've had it installed for years, and every year or so I go back and play for an hour, completely baffled as to what to do and where to go, but still somehow in awe of the vast emptiness.
Although there are some puzzles in this game, I am not sure you could ever figure them all out without a walkthrough, but the puzzles aren't really the point, I don't think. You are dropped into a huge, minimal, white world where everything you see is very far away. It takes a long time to get anywhere. You can build blocks into mid-air, erecting snake-like pathways and staircases that tower into the nothingness. Every now and then you encounter a weird symbol or tree or monolith. There are no instructions. By building blocks, pruning branches, pushing panels, eventually you may reveal a short cutscene and advance toward the end of the game. Most of the time nothing happens, but there's something compelling about trying.
The game is very relaxing and very forgiving, and that's why it works. Even though you have no idea what to do or where to go, even though you occasionally fall off one of the stairs you spent 20 minutes building, all the way back to the bottom of the level again... It kind of doesn't matter. The whole process is meditative and soothing. Nothing bad happens, there's no rush to get anywhere. There's some poetry to read, but if it told an actual story it was way too deep for me. Doesn't matter. Just wander around. Stand up on the edge of nothing and look out at nothing. It's peaceful.
This is a fantastic game to keep in your library to play while you are waiting for other games to download. If you like walking sims, exploration games and just the sense of being very small in a very big place, it's definitely worth a purchase.
Steam User 0
gotta say this game probably isn't for everyone, being more exploration focused than puzzles imo, but i really like it :] my only problem is i wish there was a high contrast option, as the white landscapes are VERY pretty but can hurt to look at after a while