Ori and the Blind Forest cover art

Ori and the Blind Forest

2015 · Moon Studios · ~10h to finish

You can save anywhere for a resource cost, which turns the escape sequences into a planning problem: no soul links means no checkpoints, and the game does not hand them back.

metroidvaniaplatformerPCXbox SeriesNintendo Switch
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty4.3MODERATE

You will lose sometimes. You will not mind.

The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Execution
5.5
Reaction
5.5
Learning Curve
4.0
Punishment
3.0
Puzzle
2.5
Obscurity
2.1
Strategy
1.5
Grind
1.2
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Punishment drops 0.5 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 0.8 points off, if you use them.

These are generic numbers. Calibrate and this whole page re-scores around you.

Calibrate

Screenshots

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT
START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS
  1. 40% · ~4hExecution

    the first timed escape, run with no checkpoints of your own

    22

Assists & accessibility

0/3 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Save anywhere [unsourced]

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

HEARING

  • Full subtitles [unsourced]

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

The forest of Nibel is dying.

Where to go from here

Argue with these asks

The same shape, one rung harder. The next thing, not the hardest thing.

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