Silver Pines Hits Very Positive On Steam With 94 Percent Of Reviews
A small studio's resource-management take on the Metroidvania format has landed a 94 percent positive Steam rating across more than 900 reviews at launch, which is the reception Team17 would have wanted before deciding how far to push the game beyond PC.
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Team17 released Silver Pines, developed by Wych Elm, on October 9 for PC via Steam. The Metroidvania-style survival horror game casts private detective Red Walker in a rural town crawling with fog-covered creatures while he searches for a missing musician. At the time of writing it holds over 900 Steam reviews at 94 percent positive, earning a Very Positive rating, with in-game Japanese text supported.
Silver Pines locks plenty of its town behind locked doors and number keypads, and the camera the game hands players is meant to soften that: photographs of objects and rooms can be pinned to the map and checked later, so a key found elsewhere is not lost to memory. Combat is a cost rather than a loop. Firearm ammunition is limited, melee weapons wear down, coins are needed to save, and the grid inventory caps what Walker can carry, so fleeing is often the better call. Mixing herbs and rotating items to fit the grid are part of the same pressure.
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