Grissallia<p>July 27, 2023 - Day 208 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 227</p><p>Game: The Eternal Cylinder</p><p>Platform: Steam<br>Release Date: Oct 14, 2022<br>Library Date: Mar 14, 2023<br>Unplayed: 135d (4m13d)<br>Playtime: 22m</p><p>The Eternal Cylinder is a weird game. It's a weird open-world-ish adventure-slash-survival-slash-puzzle game where you play as a little creature called a Trebhum, and you can consume stuff around you in the environment in order to evolve.</p><p>Which you need to do, to try and stay ahead of the giant unavoidable titular "Eternal Cylinder", which literally crushes everything in it's path.</p><p>Including you, if you can't get ahead of it, and to one of the towers dotted around the landscape that stop the cylinder. Temporarily.</p><p>The alien landscape reminds me of the planets in No Man's Sky, but the weirdest thing on the planet's surface might be the Trebhum. These little spehroidal* creatures start out with two eyes and a snout, which which they consume (left mouse button) and expel (right mouse button) things they find around the environment.</p><p>Some of these things help the little Trebhum evolve new abilities. Like suddenly growing legs with which to jump and run away from the giant, world-crushing cylinder.</p><p>Fortunately the game autosaves a lot because, y'all gonna need it.</p><p>All the while, the game is narrated by a friendly &amp; gentle Englishman (who's actually a New Zealand actor, Peter Hadyen), guiding you through the things you need to do to survive.</p><p>The only reason I stopped playing was because I had my late work shift and a co-worker waiting on me to make the actual phone calls due to my lack of actual voice, otherwise I would have continued playing.</p><p>The Eternal Cylinder is crushingly:</p><p>4: Good</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/TheEternalCylinder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheEternalCylinder</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/OpenWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenWorld</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Survival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Survival</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Adevnture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Adevnture</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Puzzler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Puzzler</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MastodonGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonGaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>