Wanderlust: Travel Stories premiered on 26 September 2019, with some journalists being able to preview the game before the release. Here’s what the press - and not only the gaming press! -- thought about the game.„Wanderlust is an unusual and bold concept of a game based on the literature of the road. The courage of the artists, who created a game consisting mostly of text, deserves admiration. And recognition, too, because Wanderlust is simply a really good game.” - said a reviewer from
Gamepressure.com, awarding Wanderlust with a high
8.5/10 score.
The
Pixel Magazine gave Wanderlust a score of
83/100 and a seal of recommendation:
„Wanderlust is a story about a couple of westerners who gradually come to realize how little do they know about the world and how to correct whatever is wrong with it. Such a serious, at times even journalistic tone is very rare in video games.”Gry.wp.pl also praised the title:
„I’d like Wanderlust: Travel Stories to achieve the status of other acclaimed Polish games, like This War of Mine. On one hand, it can be harder, because there are fewer ‘game’ elements inhere. But on the other, it can find success among the people who have been avoiding games due to their lack of skill or fear of failing.”
Wanderlust: Travel Stories got
9/10 from the South African
SAGamer:
„It isn’t easy to capture how overwhelming and complicated and fraught with tension travelling can be, but Wanderlust does a great job of showcasing the essence of it, and the transformative power travelling can have.”One of the first non-gaming magazines to notice Wanderlust was
National Geographic Traveler Poland:
„It’s something we haven’t seen before in Poland. A sign of a new trend calls Slow Gaming. It’s shaping up to be one heck of an adventure.”Filmweb, a movie website, also reviewed the game:
“I’ve tried to make choices true to my own temperament, heart, and mind, and indeed I was back with my thoughts to Bangkok, which I visited a couple of years ago. Its atmosphere was well recreated, and well-written descriptions -- although sometimes cheesy -- were accurate and true.”
The game was also covered by
Vogue:
“its creators have gone towards the expectations of new groups, such as women (who, according to studies, prefer a psychological view of the world), book readers, travelers or mature gamers who grew out of games for teens and want to widen their horizons.”Wanderlust was also featured in an article in
Gazeta Wyborcza, the top newspaper in Poland, about the role of games in dealing with PTSD. One of the game’s stories takes the players to Rwanda, where the memories of the civil war and the Tutsi genocide are still very much alive.
See what you feel about Wanderlust: Travel Stories. The game is now available on PC, iOS and Mac.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1051410/Wanderlust_Travel_Stories/
