Anodyne

Anodyne is good until it ends, but it's great once it did. Let me explain. At first I had a decent amount of fun with it, but after a while I got bored and was just trying to get the game to end. Then it ended, and the game left me with a power that let me explore the game in a way that you're only able to do via cheating in other games. And not only that, poking around a bit here and there, I discovered that there...

17 found this helpful, 2025-10-28

This is a review I probably should have written over 10 years ago when the game was first released and I played it for the first time. I cannot recommend this game enough. In fact, it's pretty much the one game I do recommend to all of my friends, and I've gotten a lot of my friends to play it! It is without a doubt my favourite indie game, full stop. It's even marked as my favourite game on my Steam profile for the...

10 found this helpful, 2025-12-18

i just cannot stop coming back to this game. i kept playing the original version from itch.io over and over. i kept playing the switch version over, and over. and now i've got it on my steam, to play over and over until the end of time. Anodyne strikes every last chord with me. the irreverent humor poking fun at classic zelda tropes, over a winding, ethereal Land that often makes you feel uneasy. the soothingly...

10 found this helpful, 2025-12-28