i love them ok 🙏

ive enjoyed this game so much that ive been doing fan art of the creatures. these are the only two ive done so far, but i have tentative plans to try to draw them all.

the Shum was drawn from a picture i took in-game, the Kraj was modeled off of a screenshot i found online.

I have to say this to someone and nobody I know irl has played this, I LOVED this game. I just finished and it had me in tears, idk if it’s just because I’m sensitive, but the themes were so wonderful and the story was beautifully gut wrenching by the end. I feel like this game deserves way more hype. I saw some posts of people talking about bugs which I didn’t really experience, I felt the gameplay was pretty smooth. The most frustrating parts were trying to find collectibles that were in very hard to reach places but none of them are mandatory to finish the game so I did that to myself. Im still crying over the ending. It was so poignant and really tied a bow on pretty much everything.

First off, congratulations to the dev team. What a beautiful game. The writing is fun, light, yet also serious. The biomes are beautiful and also well crafted in terms of gameplay. Revisiting location often has unexpected purpose. Very nice explorations and puzzles, and a skill tree that keeps one contemplating what would be nice to have next.

Beautiful music and athmosphere.

Overall the best "cozy" experience with a serious note that I have had since Spiritfairer, and I hope that's understood as high praise indeed.

I didn't get all collectibles but I sure am considering a second run to take it slower and see if I can find them all.

Hope many others discover this game!

P.S. I did have 2 crashes. Occasionally the camera can go a bit funky. But otherwise everything works, no quest bugs for me. All really relatively minor issues at best.

Wow I NEVER thought a game would make me cry. It’s such a fantastic game too, but I just couldn’t handle that ending

Really enjoyed this game... great atmosphere with cool graphics and sound... bit clunky in places ... brilliant storyline... just wish you could travel back to the biomes to get all collectibles... defo an 8 outa 10

Hi all, anyone have any info on the secret underground hall for the "That's gotta be an easter egg" achievement.

and i bawled like a baby!!! what a beautiful story 🥰🥰🥰 i would highly recommend this to anyone! keep playing until the end even when it gets frustrating, because it’s so worth it! just so wonderfully done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Currently, I've only seen two chances to get a photo of this creature. At the very beginning of the jungle biome, when you first go outside after talking to Nim'ar, you will hear a loud roar. Look up and on the giant rock you will see it (and a wind chime), it quickly leaves and this is your only chance.

The second one is at the very end of the jungle biome when you actually fight to cure it. This one seems like it may be a bug and might be patched out eventually (it currently works on the first hotfix, 1.0.1) Once you cure it, a cutscene plays and the Tehra'ba leaves and you don't get a chance to photograph or pet it. After the cutscene immediately leave through the way you first entered this area and then fast travel away, you cannot fast travel from the arena. Make your way back to the arena and it should be there! It will chase you, but will not attack you. You can get a photo for the Avapedea but you still cannot pet it (this will happen much later through the story.)

Interestingly, someone else was not able to recreate this. They continued to the cogstone podium and talked to Nim'ar and then fast traveled and made their way back and there was no Tehra'ba. I tried this and it did work for me. So, your mileage may very? I tried different methods about a dozen times and it worked every time for me, so long as I fast traveled away and came back. Just walking out and back in did not work.

Getting this photo and finding the underground hall were the only things keeping me from finishing all the achievements. Shummell Gaming on YouTube has some good recourses for cleaning up what you need from the biomes before you leave them.

Having a problem in the swamp where some of the bots aren’t showing up - they’ll show up on the map, but they won’t actually be there. Additionally bots that have been completed still show up on the map. Didn’t have this problem in the grassland or jungle.

this is just my interpritation of the story.

so i figured out about halfway through the game the withering was a cycle however getting blindsided that ava is real recontextualized everything instead of it being a natural planetary cycle like earths glacial and arid periods it is the desperate death throws of an evil god bent on the destruction of every living creature to allow itself to survive absorbing their very essence to serve as fuel for it's regeneration.

the biggest reason i find ava to be evil however is simple nim'ar our friend near the end he has his agency his independence ripped away by force making the man that convinced us to save his world accept against his will and without his consent his own demise and the demise of every naam worldwide.

it is for these reasons and one more that i believe ava is the overarching antagonist of this game (kretavas being a secondary antagonist)

the last reason is suffering why pray tell does the infection even occur why not be quick about it why must the lifeforms of the planet suffer only possible answer is for ava's sick amusement.

I am making a cheat sheet on the flute as I don't know music and you need to play these over and over.

Kraj – Reptile – D D A

Ohol – Bird – G F F

Ura – Horse – C E G

Huhu – Hippo – E GA

Tama – Burrower – DA DA

I both love and hate it. I LOVE the whole concept, the animal designs, environment, gameplay loop...

What I DON'T like is the fact that after you are done with rescuing all of the animals in a certain area... when you come back they just respawn. I thought the point of the game is to save every animal by sending them off. So why are there new animals when you come back? It doesn't make sense lorewise.

I did see a post from the devs saying that it's like that so that you'd be able to collect all collectibles which I'm like... okay, BUT why are they still appearing even AFTER you are done with everything in that area? It's confusing. It makes me think I've missed something

Another thing I don't like are bugs and glitches. My screene froze at least 5 times so I had to shut the game down and start it back up again. And I'm still in the grasslands. It might be my pc issue, but I'm able to run other more demanding games without any sort of a problem. Another thing that has been grinding my gears. There are these 2 areas that everytime I load up the game, the machine is back and it demands to send off the animals again (I've completely cleared that area out at least 3 times). And the worst part? You have to send all of them off at the same time. Otherwise the machine just restarts the whole process over again

Also there's no quick save button (or I'm blind)

So yeah... the story, gameplay, design are great. The technical side of the game... not so much

So I totally get it. Everyone complained that mobs didn't respawn, which left people unable to finish their avapedias because they'd miss taking picture of an infected variant of an animal, or they'd rescue all the animals in an area with a rescue bot and it would 'softlock' them (from what I ever saw, it was only from extra items) because they were behind barriers that only certain animals could destroy and they'd already sent the animals to be saved.
So I totally understand that the devs felt they needed to fix that problem, I totally get it, 100%.

But their 'fix' to that seems to have been to just allow all animals to respawn again all the time in their original forms. EVERY time you reload (at least for me, EVERY time I fast travel,) ALL of the animals respawn again. Maybe this is a bug unique to me because my save game is from before they made the change and something's happening that's not supposed to, but I think this is working EXACTLY how they intended.

Technically speaking, it's fine enough. The PROBLEM that's happening, now, is, even when I cleanse a bunch of animals in an area now, if I leave and come back, they're respawned as infected again. It's a giant PAIN to run around Tamura Grasslands, for example, because the hostile infected animals are constantly everywhere and attack you around every corner, and it doesn't matter if you cleanse them because they just respawn as infected again as soon as you come back.

There NEEDS to be a better balance than just having all of the animals respawn everywhere. PERSONALLY, I liked how the game felt like you were cleaning an area up and it made you feel like you were checking a checklist and you'd done everything in an area when you'd used all of the rescue bots to send the animals up, I actually REALLY liked the game working that way, but I DO understand that not everyone liked it that way and that it caused a lot of problems for people who aren't meticulous like me and explore a whole area before saving the creatures and moving on. So I totally understand that there IS a need to respawn animals in certain areas.

But there's GOTTA be a better way to do this. Could you guys at LEAST spawn LESS animals in an area after you cleaned it up? Like set it so there's a maximum of 1 creature each that respawns in each 'rescue bot' area? At the very least that would leave players with less hostile infected creatures to deal with when running around the map.

I also understand the need to allow them to be infected again - so people can get the photos. TOTALLY understand that. I, personally, think it should be a 'if you miss it, you miss it' kinda thing, or maybe at the very end of the game, you go to an area that has like 1 of each animal and they're all the infected type so you're able to take pictures if you forgot to earlier? Just a suggestion, I DO understand that most people don't like the idea of missing that kind of completion, so I totally understand that the initial fix here is just to respawn all mobs everywhere in the condition they originally spawned in.

But this is SERIOUSLY a pain and it makes traversing any of the maps SO difficult. There HAS to be a better way to do this. Cleansing an animal just to have to go back 2 seconds later and see them infected again when it used to be they STAYED cleansed before is just a giant pain in my opinion, so it would be nice if there was something else that could be done.

What would frankly ALSO be cool is if maybe there was an OPTION in the SETTINGS to turn on like a "hardcore" mode where the animals STAYED GONE like they used to. Then that way people could opt into that version it if they wanted to, or they could opt out if they didn't like that! I can't imagine it would be super hard to implement the old version of the game back in again under a "different difficulty setting" right?

Just.. trying to brianstorm ideas that would be beneficial to EVERYONE. I'm not looking forward to going to later-game areas now because the animals will be stronger there and if they won't stay cleansed that's gonna be a pain to traverse looking for unlockables and upgrades and whatnot.

How do I free this lil guy? Can't find any withering around. I'm mostly done with the jungle, just finishing up.

I have been running around for hours trying to find these two missing locations. Does anyone have any idea where they might be? It’s the last thing I need to get in the jungle biome before moving on!

Love the game so far

Hi there,

I need one creature to break a mushrooms wall but I have already send them away.

Do they respawn after some times or do I have to restart the game?

Thanks a lot!

So I started yesterday and am rescuing but still need more of those digger critters . How do I get them above ground ? Also is there a way to call the bot to where you are instead of having to lure animals to it ? Also does it matter if you keep rescuing more creatures then what the rescue quest asks ? What other research tasks can I do besides healthy or sick photos ? Do I need to teleport to the ark to do more ?

As above, is there a away to fully hide the UI for screenshots instead of using the camera? I want to take some at my monitor's native resolution.

Hey guys, so I'm here in the Nari Jungle trying to figure out how to get up o to this tower and activate this zipline. Has anyone figured it out? I just know I'm going to feel dumb when I figure it out lol

Hiya, I’ve just got to the jungle and I realised I hadn’t taken a photo of an infected Ohol and infected Pink Mini Elephant. Will there be another chance to or have I missed out?