- Publisher: Yellow Brick Games
- Release Date: Jan 28, 2025
- Also On: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X
- Summary:
- Developer: Yellow Brick Games
- Genre(s): Action Adventure, General
- # of players: No Online Multiplayer
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 22
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Mixed: 7 out of 22
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Negative: 1 out of 22
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Jan 28, 2025Eternal Strands serves as an incredible debut for Yellow Brick Games, stunning with its incredible visuals and wowing with its great magic system and enthralling gameplay.
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Jan 28, 2025Eternal Strands is an unforgettable combination of intense action, inventive improvisation and an engaging story.
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Feb 5, 2025The Yellow Brick Games team consists of many experienced developers from renowned studios, and their first collaborative project reflects that. While the combat is a little bit janky, the world-building, characters, and overall design are excellent.
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Jan 27, 2025The game expertly and exquisitely craft a dense, multilayered, and vibrant adventure set against memorable settings.
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Jan 28, 2025Eternal Strands is an ambitious debut that demonstrates both the potential and limitations of Yellow Brick Games. When its systems work in harmony – especially during battles against the Arks – the game achieves moments of brilliance that rival its inspirations. Physics and magic combine to create memorable situations that truly make you feel powerful and creative.
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Feb 14, 2025Eternal Strands is filled with great ideas. But sporadically, the game’s execution and exposition can’t match these lofty ambitions. At best, the game is a thermodynamic playground that lets you experiment with frost and flame. But once you’ve absorbed its principles (and the weaknesses of the game’s bosses), the game’s appeal might dissolve like ice in an inferno.
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Jan 27, 2025While it always feels bad to slam a small-ish studio that is more overly ambitious than actually incompetent, Eternal Strands is too shoddily-made to be praised. Not challenging and intelligent enough to promote a smart use of systemic magic effects, too repetitive to be charming and too strained between inspirations to find an unique voice, this is more of an unfinished tech demo with wacky physics than a true fantasy tale.