Valley

I thought this was a fun, shorter game. It looks great for a game released 10 years ago and I found the mechanics to be fun. It isn't challenging, really. But I enjoyed it as more of a casual experience. It was certainly a breath of fresh air for me as I've mostly been jumping from massive open world to massive open world. The game had good progression, kept things fresh and introduced new mechanics frequently and I found the story to be a nice bow to tie everything together and didn't detract from the gameplay at all.

Fun little game. There's a sequence that the music adapts to as you play and I still think about it years later.

I bought this game in 2020 in a bundle of two other games. I still think about it five years later sometimes. I saw no reviews, no guides, I bought it for another game in the bundle, and I played it because it was in my library. I went in with no expectations, and it was a short story of 6 hours. I loved the music and the sense of magic, and I feel like it would have suffered a lot if they tried to drag it out. I think in this world we increasingly feel like we have less time, and weirdly we feel like we need games that we can play for hours for it to be worth it.
There are many games I have played for 30+, 70+ hours that I don't think about, or have as much of a soft spot for me as this 6 hour game.

Explore the world as a super fast runner. If you like the adrenaline from driving games then you'll probably like this one. There's some puzzles and indoors exploration.
Finished in ~5 hours.

Overall, the game is good. The story progresses in a typical and reasonable manner, but it's not something that will engage your mind deeply. The mechanics added through updates are mostly well-implemented and provide an enjoyable experience, but some elements, like the grappling hooks, lack good physics and can make the gameplay frustrating.
The music often loops, which can become tedious over time, although there are moments where it reaches a great climax and enhances the game's appeal.
To summarize, the game is short and interesting, but might make some parts feel dull. However, there are also moments where the gameplay picks up speed, and the soundtrack brings back the excitement of the experience.

This is an easy recommendation, but calculate your own price-to-value ratio as it only took 6 hours to finish, and I’m not going back for a 2nd playthrough.
It’s a first-person exploration game, with the main gameplay being super human traversal. There’s a little combat, but it’s very simple: just aim and shoot. On the other hand, traversal is wildly fun: you’ve got super human speed, you can jump hundreds of feet in the air, you have a grapple hook that launches you into the stratosphere, and eventually you’ll be walking on walls and even water. It’s as cool as it sounds, and the game ends before it gets too repetitive.
The graphics look worse than what the trailers/pictures show, mainly because there are lots of very dark areas. That said, I’m not complaining; the environments are still up to par (for 2016), and it gets the job done. Sound effects are on point as well. The story is good enough, but nothing spectacular.
Only real complaints I have are:
1.) The audio options are bugged – you have to reset them every time.
2.) The save system could be better – you always start at the beginning of an area, which can mean a loooong run back to where you actually were.
A very cool game that’s sort of like a super hero simulator. Very fun, but short.

This game has got one of the best movement mechanics compared to many of the games i played, i could put it simply as Vanquish without combat when it comes to movement.
Well, the story is not a plus of this game, neither is the combat, but it sure makes it up in exploration, coupled up with that sweet movement mechanics and makes roaming around just fun.