The Way

Journey to another planet and discover its secrets in order to bring your loved one back to life. Experience an adventure, inspired by old school classics like Another World, Heart of Darkness and Flashback.

The Way is a adventure, indie and action game developed by Puzzling Dream and published by PlayWay S.A. and Ultimate Games S.A..
Released on May 20th 2016 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 8 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian.

It has received 1,245 reviews of which 1,041 were positive and 204 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 0.89€ on Steam and has a 94% discount.

The Steam community has classified The Way into these genres:

Adventure Indie Action Pixel Graphics Platformer Puzzle-Platformer 2D Sci-fi Retro Singleplayer Side Scroller Atmospheric Puzzle Story Rich Difficult Family Friendly Relaxing Great Soundtrack

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP SP3 / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD equivalent
Memory: 2048 MB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 8600GT
Storage: 1 GB available space

MacOS

OS: MacOS 10.7.5
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory: 2048 MB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 8600GT
Storage: 1 GB available space

Linux

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD equivalent
Memory: 2048 MB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 8600GT
Storage: 1 GB available space

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

10/10. I cried multiple times. This is what a masterpiece of a game looks like. The story is beautiful, emotional, and strung through every moment of the game. The sci-fi genre is beautiful, the style, everything. I wish there were more like this. Reminds me a lot of epic sci-fi worlds like Hyperion or Foundation.

Sept. 2024

I rarely review games before completing them, most of the time even a review it´s the final step before unistalling tons of games for me, when I trully feel there´s nothing more to experience about it, that´s when I trully think my oppinion is informed enough to be shared. With The Way though I have to make an exception, cause I understood a long time ago that I will never complete it. The negative reviews are correct, this game is utterly frustrating, it has never being patched despite the multiple complains and probably never will, remaining as uncompleted for most players, specially since it lacks steam cloud and therefor unless you take your own messures, losing your progress is a posibility and you simply wouldn´t want to repeat any of the frustrating, difficult and time sensitive puzzles you may have manage to overcome allready. But why the positive rating then? Becuase this game is as beutiful and well design as frustrating. The art style is used masterfully alongside some really good designs for an alien world that is completely unique. The story is presented with such simplicity yet care that takes you back to your childhood games if you happen to be a little older, where the limitations of hardware and sofware would force devs to get creative on how to present a narrative. And it´s difficult not to get hooked precisely due to the puzzles being kind fo hardcore, the more you progress things escalate and there´s a point of no return where the game would have capture you enough to desire finishing it. It trully manage to pay a heck of a homage to the games it clearly draws inspiration like Flashback and Another World. Overall I think this puzzle action platformer needs to be experienced, again, the only drawback it´s the fact you may not be able to experience it entirely. There are a series of specific puzzle that have become notoriously infamous for the community, some are more doable with either patience or a guide and others less so depending on the type of player you are. But it´s also super cheap when it´s on sale, as I write this review it´s on a sale for 0,89, that´s a crazy bargain even if you don´t manage to complete it. I think I paid a similar price and have 7 hours registered, when I got stuck I decided to watch on youtube the rest of the game to see the ending and sucks I wasn´t able to get there but I did enjoy the story still even if I wasn´t making those final steps.

Sept. 2024

The Way feels very immersive, it has great artistic design and atmosphere. It's an adventure game and a puzzle-heavy platformer. I haven't played the games that inspired it, but the retro sensibility is obvious and feels authentic. If you like puzzles, adventures, and a sense of wonder it's a good fit. However, it has one downside for my taste, possibly explained by those retro sensibilities. It's very die and retry. You play as a human, grief-stricken, driven by mad resolve, gradually moving from mundane reality into wondrous alien landscapes. This is conveyed by the gorgeous color palette, and by a sense of scale: functionally, you are a speck. You have one (1) hit point. The platforming is fiddly. The game registers your inputs just fine, and it knows how to be responsive, but vertical movement is often based on grabbing ledges, and you have to be precise with the positioning just to move around. Dropping by more than a few hundred pixels (your character avatar is small relative to the scenery) is death. If the boundaries of where you can survive aren't quite obvious, you die, retry, until you hopefully have finger memory of what works. You'll gain a handful of abilities (starting with a gun), which you absolutely need for your survival, but you can only use those when standing and not moving. Cool-downs require you to plan ahead. Moving triggers animations (those ledge interactions), and those also make you a vulnerable target. Each area is a little tableau, entering one gives you one (1) checkpoint, after that you are generally on your own. (Solving a puzzle occasionally gives another). Whenever you are facing enemies, your extreme vulnerability doesn't much encourage experimentation or improvisation, you have to be patient and repeat what works. The well realized atmosphere makes it worth persevering. I just wish being a resolute speck didn't involve so much dying. PS: The puzzles are much more friendly to experimentation. You'll occasionally need to take notes, I used steam's screenshot and notes functionality which worked out well and saved some backtracking.

April 2024

fantastic sound, great music. very nice art work. very smoothly programmed. authentic, meaningful and comprehensible emotions. the puzzles are not very innovative, but they keep you busy. made me relaxed after work 👍

March 2024

Nice game, some puzzles are a little bit frustrating and the ending is not that satisfactory (some questions are totally and disappointedly unanswered) , but it's worth a play.

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-94% 14.99€ 0.89€

8.0

1,041

204

Online players

Developer

Puzzling Dream

Publisher

PlayWay S.A., Ultimate Games S.A.

Release 20 May 2016

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