ABZU

Such a beautiful game. I did get nauseated on the first level until I figured out how to swim smoothly. After that I played the game in 2 days and found it breathtaking and relaxing. Feeling very much a part of the ocean by the end.

It was a short but breathtaking and memorable jurney. But I recommend buying this game only on sale because 20€ for 2 hour story is just too much.

Great little game. Not sure why some people complain. You get what was advertised. There is no real story, there are no tasks it is something to spend some time with. Just enjoy the underwater environment(i really like the animations of the fish, very realistic) and if you've seen enough follow the little "waypoint" hints. Definitely recommended.

Great game with a beautiful graphic and simple but peaceful story, but if i have complaint is the length 2 hours for this price is just too much i recommend to get it in sales. still good game 7/10

This is a gorgeous piece, but unfortunately I can't enjoy it due to the droid companions flashing blindingly bright lights. They happen randomly and there isn't a way to turn it off, so what was supposed to be a meditative and chill session of playing ended up in migraines- multiple times, as I've attempted playing under different settings several times.

So many games boast about having cutting edge graphics. But so few are actually beautiful like this one. Art direction is the key.

highly recommend this game.

It was good enough to make me play twice the amount of time needed, just to explore everywhere and get every achievement.

A very chill game. Im pretty sure its done by the same guys who did Journey and Flower. For the most part its a swimming simulator not a lot to do outside of a few puzzles and can explore a bit. Its very short at 1.5 hrs. Its very beautiful looking game and very relaxing with some nice music.

The story is pretty much told through wall paintings. Its a nice little game not worth full price mainly because of how short it is but for $5 I'd recommend picking it up.

The most amazing game I have ever seen in my life! I will say I used thr praydog UEVR mod. This game in VR was lofe changing. I just completed it and already want to do it all again. The most relaxing, therapeutic, stress relieving, adventure, story. Incredible! thank you developers for making a game that I will be able to play for the rest of my life.

This is a very beautiful underwater journey through gorgeous environments and seeing charming wildlife everywhere. It's not really a game in the classic sense, in fact it barely has a story. Instead it's just a very relaxing swimming simulator with jaw-dropping eye-candy and nice, calming music. It's kinda short, only about 3 hours in my case for a playthrough, but it's well-worth it in my opinion. You don't even need to do it in one sitting, you can just play a little bit of it every now and then and sit back and relax while doing so. Pretty cool experience!

Beautiful game, but barely more than a tech demo. Even less of a game than Journey was even though it's a sequel. Pick it up on sale if you must complete your collection.

There are many games that decently or even very well immerse you into a nightmare, but only very few games that manage to immerse you into a dream. This game I count amongst these rare few. The music, the graphics and the whole gameplay just align so well. It is an experience that I would recommend without hesitation. Barely any other game manages to evoke a dream of weightlessness and vibrant colours like this one.

If you love the ocean and pastel colors this is a game for you. The designs of the game are cute and smooth, a good game to sit and relax with. Also 10/10 recommend the music album from this game as well!

A very relaxing game. I played this during covid and it was a very nice exploration game.

Abzu is a game that as followed me as ive grown up, its a game that everyone must play, the sheer bliss i felt while finishing this game and progressing its storyline were to none other degree, the parts of sadness were deep and felt memorable as well as the "reincarnation" segments

Jogo muito lindo, experiencia diferente em 4k com HDR

“在蔚蓝海洋深处编织的一场无言诗篇”
"A wordless poem woven in the depths of azure seas"

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### ---{ Graphics / 画面 }---
☐ You forget what reality is / 分不清游戏和现实了
☑ Beautiful / 美到窒息
☐ Good / 画质精良养眼
☐ Decent / 看得过去，能玩就行
☐ Bad / 辣眼睛
☐ Don't look too long at it / 再看就要瞎了
☐ MS-DOS / 年代感拉满

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### ---{ Gameplay / 游戏玩法 }---
☑ Very good / 玩得欲罢不能
☐ Good / 玩法有料
☐ It's just gameplay / 凑活能玩
☐ Mehh / 食之无味，弃之可惜
☐ Watch paint dry instead / 还不如看水开
☐ Just don't / 玩这游戏是对生命的浪费

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### ---{ Audio / 音效 }---
☑ Eargasm / 颅内高潮
☐ Very good / 余音绕梁
☐ Good / 悦耳动听
☐ Not too bad / 中规中矩
☐ Bad / 魔音灌耳
☐ I'm now deaf / 建议静音

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### ---{ Audience / 适合人群 }---
☑ Kids / 小屁孩儿
☑ Teens / 青少年
☑ Adults / 社畜
☑ Grandma / 你老奶

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### ---{ PC Requirements / 配置需求 }---
☐ Check if you can run paint / 能打开记事本就能玩
☐ Potato / 祖传破电脑
☑ Decent / 普通装机
☐ Fast / 显卡要发挥余热了
☐ Rich boi / 准备好肾源
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer / 得找国家超算中心借机器

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### ---{ Game Size / 游戏大小 }---
☐ Floppy Disk / 塞牙缝都嫌多
☑ Old Fashioned / 放裤兜都不胀
☐ Workable / 挺正常
☐ Big / 有点大了
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive / 先腾个100G空间再说
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it / 得专门买块硬盘
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data / 得找黑洞来存

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### ---{ Difficulty / 难度 }---
☐ Just press 'W' / 用脚都能玩
☑ Easy / 躺着玩
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master / 入门容易精通难
☐ Significant brain usage / 要长脑子了
☐ Difficult / 手残党劝退
☐ Dark Souls / 已经超越了游戏的范畴

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### ---{ Grind / 肝度 }---
☑ Nothing to grind / 佛系玩家天堂
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks / 强迫症患者才需要肝
☐ Isn't necessary to progress / 肝不肝都行
☐ Average grind level / 该肝的时候得肝
☐ Too much grind / 肝帝进场
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding / 准备好辞职专肝

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### ---{ Story / 剧情 }---
☐ No Story / 纯玩就完了
☐ Some lore / 聊胜于无
☐ Average / 三分钟热度就忘
☐ Good / 偶有佳境
☑ Lovely / 欲罢不能
☐ It'll replace your life / 这他妈就是人生

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### ---{ Game Time / 游戏时长 }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee / 刚泡好面就通关
☐ Short / 一顿饭的工夫
☑ Average / 周末能肝完
☐ Long / 寒暑假的目标
☐ To infinity and beyond / 肝到天荒地老

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### ---{ Price / 价格 }---
☐ It's free! / 白嫖党狂喜
☑ Worth the price / 该花的钱不能省
☐ If it's on sale / 等打折吧兄弟
☐ If u have some spare money left / 不差钱才考虑
☐ Not recommended / 这价格有点离谱
☐ You could also just burn your money / 嫌钱多可以把钱给我

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### ---{ Bugs / Bug情况 }---
☑ Never heard of / 代码写得比诗优雅
☐ Minor bugs / 小问题无伤大雅
☐ Can get annoying / 祖传屎山上线了
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved / 特性，这都是特性
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs / 这不是游戏，这是BUG百科

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Its a beautiful game, aesthetically pleasing in ways hard to describe!!! Play for yourself, and explore all areas with patience, and change camera angles often!!! :D

I didn't have a controller when I played ABZU, but it was still an amazing experience, and I want to say that it was the most calming, and relaxing, mystically magical journey I have ever experienced from a video game.

Thank you Giant Squid.

My desire to own an aquarium has never been stronger while playing this game. ABZU is so effortlessly beautiful and atmospheric it's no wonder it was nominated for a BAFTA

An amazing story with a deep message to tell, Making you experience and feel how it feels. Making the impact of the story have more of a connection with audience . It shows it doesn't tell! Would recommend to everyone to play no matter the genre you are a fan of. This game is a connection to life itself!

Very short game while being a fulfilling experience. All you do is Swim around the Ocean saving different areas as you go deeper. No real danger, nothing challenging, just a pleasant experience. Not your typical game but when it goes on sale for 5$ it's worth checking out.

Ate some magic truffles and wanted something chill to play, 10/10 delivered, awe and wonderment.

The work of Matt Nava and Giant Squid studio invites you to dive to the bottom of the ocean, but not in search of treasures or secrets of the universe, but for emotions alone. Postmodernism is confidently winning in the gaming industry. In Abzu, we discern something profound, but most likely devoid of meaning. All that remains is to relax and enjoy

The game is a great experience but you will have to push past the controls, they are hard to get used to and do diminish the experience a little bit.

ABZU is a wonderful adventure game where you travel in the underwater and free many fishes locked. The story is so beautiful that I always shed a tear at the end of every trip (it's not a lie). The designs are great and the soundtrack is really relaxing and peaceful. I enjoyed playing this game so much, it's one of my favorite game! That would be a shame to miss out such a great game like this one. I highly recommend it!!! 🐠💙

Мне очень понравилась эта игра но управление не удобное а так норм.

Super engaging and immersive. Def recommend as a great relaxing game w a great soundtrack.

7/10

Very beautiful short game. its a great game to sit down and just enjoy the environment

Visually stunning. Breathtaking score and picturesque underwater scenery only seen in dreams. I can't recommend this one enough if you love visual and interactive storytelling!

If you're a fan of games that encourage you to relax, take things slow, and enjoy the moment, this game is for you. Despite the deliberately low-poly art style, this game features the most detailed and realistic depictions of fish I've ever seen in a video game. Every scene is filled with dozens (sometimes hundreds) of fish, each one swimming and interacting with others in a convincing fashion. They move in groups, they avoid predators (or pursue prey), they swim in schools, they breach the surface. It's all there, and it's all unbelievably beautiful. It also runs unbelievably well, considering the sheer amount of entities populating each area. Gamers that pass this one by are depriving themselves of a magical experience. It blurs the line between game and art like no other game I've encountered.

A breathtaking game. I loved the visuals and atmosphere. Swimming in circles without advancing the game was so much fun, and also finding different animals to ride on.

I would recommend this if you are looking to explore in a work of art. Its short but definitely a worthwhile experience. 5/5

A lovely little game in which you swim with various aquatic life.

The game follows a linear format that sees you travelling through different underwater environments and completing fairly simple tasks in order to progress. The story is fairly solid and contains a twist I didn't expect. The visuals are stunning and the soundtrack complements the emotional highs and lows you encounter while playing.

That said, it is a very short game and other than revisiting each level to mop up any collectables missed, the game doesn't have much in the way of replayability, outside of loading it up to just relax.

I found the controls to be a little awkward on kb+m so I ended up switching to a controller to make life a bit easier. Also, I'm not sure if any of the bugs I encountered were from playing on an old pc or from the game itself, but most were negligible and thankfully not game breaking. The only issue I had that I was unable to ignore was the volume being way too loud for my autistic ears - only a full restart would fix it. Again, that could have just been from playing on an old pc.

Other than that, I enjoyed Abzu and would recommend it, especially if it's on sale, to anyone looking for a nice, calming game to play.

this game slaps, i have thalassophobia and this game doesn't unnerve me outside of a couple deeper dives. absolutely loved the meditation mode that shows all the names of fish etc, pretty cool detail.

More of an interactive art piece than a game, ABZU is still a worthwhile experience. It's not as nuanced as it likes to believe but gamers of all stripes should be able to find something of value in these waters.

---The GOOD---

• Gorgeous visual presentation.
  
• Very evocative for a walking simulator (despite the lack of walking).
  
• Good soundtrack.
  
• The Steam listing notes that a controller is 'strongly recommended'. As someone who does not own a controller, I am happy to say that this game is perfectly playable without one. The controls might take a few moments to get used to but nothing more.
  

---The BAD---

• Kinda short. Current $20 asking price is hard to justify.
  
• Limited interaction and gameplay.
  

---The AMBIVALENT---

• The story could have been integrated more elegantly.
  
[*]Can get boring after a while.

Excellent Game, Beautiful Art Design, Calming Music and Fun Gameplay
Swimming around with all the fishies is fun xD

Abzû is still a gorgeous game even after 8.5 years removed from its release. The underwater controls have a slight learning curve to them, but once you get the hang of things it’s a very relaxed and serene experience. As you progress through the chapters there is occasionally some very light puzzle solving. However, if you come into Abzû expecting anything other than a relaxing couple hours and beautiful scenery you’ll likely be disappointed.

I recently finished playing ABZÛ, and I have to say, it's an experience I won’t soon forget. The gameplay is absolutely mesmerizing. From the moment you dive into the ocean, you're greeted with a sense of calm and wonder that feels both meditative and exhilarating. The fluidity of the swimming mechanics is flawless. It’s so smooth that it feels like second nature, as if you’ve been swimming in the ocean your whole life. The controls are intuitive, allowing me to explore the underwater world with ease, whether I’m gliding gracefully through schools of fish or diving deep into mysterious coral caverns.

What really impressed me was the sense of freedom ABZÛ offers. There's no time pressure or complex combat systems—just exploration and discovery. It feels like a dream where the ocean is your playground, full of vibrant sea life and hidden treasures. The way the game encourages you to interact with the environment, whether it’s by riding a manta ray or triggering beautiful, natural phenomena, adds so much depth to the experience.

The visuals in ABZÛ are stunning, and the vibrant underwater world is a true feast for the eyes. I found myself pausing just to admire the art design—everything from the schools of fish to the mysterious underwater ruins is breathtaking.

All in all, ABZÛ is an incredibly satisfying and peaceful journey, offering a perfect blend of exploration and tranquility. It’s a game that allows you to immerse yourself completely in the beauty of the ocean, and I’m genuinely happy I got to experience it. Highly recommend it for anyone who appreciates visually stunning games that let you unwind and explore at your own pace.

Absolutely mesmerizing journey of the underwater world. Great music, beautiful colours creating unique visuals. I think it's the most beautiful game I have ever played.

I don;t have a very in-depth analysis of ABZU but I loved it. A very calming, non-violent and low-stress game with beautiful environments and an unbelievably lush and beautiful soundtrack. I heartily recommend ABZU!

Same Director as Journey, a game I really loved as it was the first game I played in this genre. The music by Austin Wintory is beautiful. Short game but very magical!

played it twice, it's an extremely charming game. many folks complained about the controls, but I felt the controls were pretty on point after getting used to them (obviously, when playing with a controller - can't imagine playing this game with a keyboard), which took me about a few minutes. I like this game more than its more beloved counterpart, Journey, and would definitely revisit it one day. recommended to everyone if sea habitats and the idea of underwater civilizations spark even a little joy inside you :)

ABZU borrows heavily from Journey's story beats, but doesn't quite reach its levels of polish and art direction. Which was very surprising, considering that both games had the same art director. But I constantly came across small irritations in gameplay, level design, and UX that could have used more time in the oven. ABZU even has the same composer, but somehow the music feels generic and can't quite emotionally reach you as it does in Journey.

Still, it's a solid game. But I would only advise playing if you haven't experienced Journey yet.

It's a nice short game about swimming through a beautiful ocean with fish. That's really about all there is to it, and all it needs to be.

Cute cozy game where you can just turn off your head and swim around with fishys

Mesmerizing journey in a phenomenal world with nice relaxing sound. Gameplay is quite satisfying. Story is simple but still interesting and even has a sort of deeper meaning.

This game is stunningly beautiful, but it's also incredibly unique. Travel the oceans uncovering a lost civilization and forging harmony with the denizens of the sea? Sign me up. I particularly appreciate the game's subtlety - the world is rich with hints of lore that add a deeper meaning to everything the character does, but it's up to the player how much they want to engage with that versus just enjoying the pretty scenery and the fun, fluid mechanics.

ABZÛ is a hell of a first game from a studio. It makes sense, since Giant Squid was founded by past employees of thatgamecompany, the studio behind Journey. This game really shows that these devs still have it.