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Ori and the Will of the Wisps

2020 · Moon Studios · ~14h to finish

Beautiful and forgiving right up to the escape sequences, which convert a gentle metroidvania into a memorisation test with no warning at all.

metroidvaniaplatformerPCXbox SeriesNintendo SwitchSteam DeckMetacritic 88
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty4.0MODERATE

You will lose sometimes. You will not mind.

Price on Steam

$29.99

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The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Execution
5.3
Reaction
4.9
Learning Curve
3.5
Puzzle
3.0
Punishment
2.4
Obscurity
1.9
Strategy
1.8
Grind
1.3
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Execution drops 0.9 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Punishment drops 0.6 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 2.4 points off, if you use them.

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT
START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS
  1. 30% · ~4hReaction

    the first chase sequence, where exploration stops and memorisation starts

    29
  2. 95% · ~13hExecution

    the final escape, which stacks every movement ability you own into one sequence

    33

Assists & accessibility

0/4 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Difficulty modes [unsourced]Easy, Normal and Hard, changeable at any time.
  • Generous checkpoints [unsourced]Continuous autosave outside chase sequences.

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

A hand-painted metroidvania with a large movement toolkit, a combat system built on chained dashes, and several scripted chase sequences.

Where to go from here

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