| Checkpoint Gaming |
Edie W-K |
6.5 / 10 |
12-05-2023 |
It’s great to see a game about a culture that often doesn’t see a lot of focus. A Highland Song has a lot of great concepts, but they just don’t all come together cohesively. Even so, it has a story worth telling and some pretty fantastic music to boot. |
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| COGconnected |
Jaz Sagoo |
80 / 100 |
12-05-2023 |
A Highland Song is wonderful. The atmosphere that permeates the game is intoxicating and will make you want to search every inch of the environment. There is a real incentive to replay the game due to the many routes and the timed objective. Although the survival aspect feels a little unnecessary, there are plenty of elements within the design that will make you fall in love with Scotland. |
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| Digital Trends |
Giovanni Colantonio |
4 / 5 stars |
12-05-2023 |
A Highland Song successfully brings the awe-inspiring freedom of Breath of the Wild to the Scottish Highlands. |
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| GameGrin |
Violet Plata |
9 / 10 |
12-05-2023 |
A Highland Song is just as unique and nuanced as I had hoped, and the developer did an outstanding job at bringing a wild sense of adventure and emotion to a 2D title. |
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| GamingTrend |
Adam Moreno |
90 / 100 |
12-04-2023 |
A Highland Song has so much heart, it’s hard not to find something to love. I was drawn into the game due to the rhythm based traversal for running up the hills. With music from Laurence Chapman, Talisk and Fourth Moon, I found myself running up and down hills just to get the songs perfect. The story also has such a sweet progression, each hint drawing you closer and closer to the truth of it all. Plus, with how much there is to explore and the time mechanic, the replayability is insane given the cost of the game. From the art style to the music to the adventure itself, it’s easy to get lost in the Highland Song. |
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| Gert Lush Gaming |
Jim Smale |
9 / 10 |
12-05-2023 |
It is just a beautiful genre matched with a good story solid gameplay and a real masterclass, I cannot praise or recommend this game enough. |
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| God is a Geek |
Chris White |
9 / 10 |
12-05-2023 |
A Highland Song is such a beautiful game, whether you find its charm in the soundtrack, gorgeous visuals, or wonderful story. |
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| Nintendo Life |
Kate Gray |
7 / 10 |
12-05-2023 |
A Highland Song’s folklore-infused adventure takes “walking simulator” to the extreme, as you pull its teen runaway Moira up and down the cliffs and mountains of the Scottish highlands, finding treasures, music, and magic along the way. But its repetitious nature wears away the joy of exploration, and further playthroughs are a struggle between the thrill of new discoveries and the tedium of having to retread old ground. |
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| PC Gamer |
Fraser Brown |
71 / 100 |
12-05-2023 |
A mismatched mix of genres grafted onto a moving, beautifully presented story. |
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| Rock, Paper, Shotgun |
Alice Bell |
Recommended |
12-05-2023 |
A Highland Song is a beautiful snapshot of wild places and wild stories, but it stumbles a bit in the process of encouraging you to run into them. |
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| SpazioGames |
Stefania Sperandio |
7.4 / 10 |
12-05-2023 |
A captivating and fascinating journey, but an improvable game. |
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| The Games Machine |
Stefano Calzati |
9 / 10 |
12-05-2023 |
A Highland Song is yet another Inkle center. An adventure platformer capable of mixing the pleasure of trekking (beautifully rendered in 2D) with a delicate, enveloping and branched narrative like the paths that cross the highlands. An intimate story, the one that Moira constantly broods over to herself, but also a cultural cross-section of a land rich in myths, legends, traditions and history, embellished by very human characters, a little crazy, capable of becoming fun interlocutors with whom to have a chat after a long climb, resting and sheltering from the cold of the mountains. Suggestive, audiovisually inspired, playfully fluid and very centered. Now I really want to visit Scotland. |
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| TheSixthAxis |
Steve C |
10 / 10 |
12-05-2023 |
A Highland Song is a very different kind of game visually to Inkle’s previous work but is very much in keeping with their narrative focus. Combined with satisfying mechanics and a beautiful aesthetic this is a real treat, all topped off with folk music that’ll have your feet gaily tapping and a central performance brimming with personality. All in all a perfect game to curl up with on a cold winter’s night with a glass of single malt, or, perhaps, an Irn Bru. |
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