Far: Lone Sails
Far: Lone Sails is a vehicle adventure game. The player needs to maintain and upgrade their unique vessel to traverse a dried-out sea, with the remains of a decaying civilization scattered out on the seabed…
Far: Lone Sails is an adventure developed by Okomotive, released 17 May 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Android. It currently starts at $3.74 at Steam. The main story takes about 3.2 hrs to finish.
What Far: Lone Sails is
Far: Lone Sails is an adventure game developed by Okomotive and released in 2018. It was published by Assemble Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Under cloud-strewn skies, the player travels across a seemingly endless dried-up sea, littered with the remains of a once vibrant seafaring civilization. The game’s world is largely devoid of life, yet filled with places to explore and history to discover. What once was the bottom of an ocean, has turned into a graveyard for submarines and super tankers. Once bustling island settlements have decayed into hilltop ruins. What secrets do they hold? And more importantly… is there any salvage to be found?! While the greater goal of the journey remains to be uncovered by the player, urgent short-term necessities call for immediate action. The train-like vehicle needs to be fueled, maintained and…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, kids and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 14 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Far: Lone Sails holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 76, across 140 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 3.2 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $3.74, that works out to about $1.17 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4 GHz, AMD FX 8120 @ 3.1 GHz, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GTX 460 / 650m, AMD Radeon HD6570. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.74 at Steam, 75% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Far: Lone Sails launched on 17 May 2018, within three weeks of Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered and Vampyr. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered, Vampyr.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Far: Lone Sails yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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