| 3DNews |
Александр Бабулин |
8.5 / 10 |
03-06-2022 |
Simple, poetic, beautiful and non-didactic journey into an (almost) depopulated world. |
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| BaziCenter |
Mohammad Zamani |
8 / 10 |
03-14-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides takes you on an unforgettable voyage in an extremely atmospheric world and asks you to enjoy the ride, no matter the destination. |
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| Bazimag |
Seyed Ali Rooholamini |
8.5 / 10 |
03-05-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides biggest goal seems to be trying to deliver a relaxing and beautiful artistic experience which it manages to achieve while also giving the audience an entertaining ride, full of emotions and satisfying moments. |
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| But Why Tho? |
Arron Kluz |
7 / 10 |
02-21-2022 |
Much of what is present in Changing Tides is plainly fantastic, but it is a shame that the game goes on for too long until it itself runs out of fuel and sputters across the finish line. |
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| CGMagazine |
Brendan Frye |
8 / 10 |
02-21-2022 |
Filled with haunting loneliness and mesmerizing beauty, if you love an indie game that can push what story and gameplay can be, you need to give Far: Changing Tides a try. |
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| Checkpoint Gaming |
Lisa Pollifroni |
6.5 / 10 |
03-30-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides is a stunning atmospheric adventure that makes you feel the ups and downs of sailing through a world that has been destroyed by unknown reasons. It excels at making you feel a connection to your vessel as it develops into something bigger, faster, and stronger throughout your time with it. However, opportunities for a deeper narrative and more rewarding exploration weren’t taken, so this intriguing world never felt fully realised. The tranquil atmosphere and art of FAR: Changing Tides is superb, it’s just a shame the somewhat repetitive gameplay loop wasn’t able to match those same standards. |
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| Eurogamer |
Vikki Blake |
Recommended |
02-21-2022 |
Far: Changing Tides’ story is a little longer and its puzzles more refined than its predecessor, while its world is as beautiful as ever. |
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| Everyeye.it |
Andrea Fontanesi |
7.6 / 10 |
02-21-2022 |
There is no doubt that those who loved Lone Sails will feel at home wallowing in the wet world of FAR: Changing Tides. |
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| Expansive |
Sam Diglett |
Recommended |
03-05-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides is a game that surprisingly inspires some deep thinking but also has a more relaxing pace when compared to pretty much everything else on the market right now. I loved every step of the journey and encourage everyone to make the time to play, what is sure to be, one of the best indies of 2022 and a perfect palette cleanser to break up the full-on releases we’re in the midst of. |
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| FingerGuns |
Miles Thompson |
9 / 10 |
03-07-2022 |
A wonderfully unique concept, FAR: Changing Tides had me attending to a virtual vessel with the kind of love and focus usually only devoted to the most valued things in life. Its beautiful, handcrafted art direction, stellar soundtrack, approachable yet unapologetic gameplay and phenomenal world will draw you in and refuse to let you go. This is a voyage worth taking, no matter the stormy conditions. |
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| Flickering Myth |
Shaun Munro |
7.5 / 10 |
02-21-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides modestly scales-up the original’s minimalist adventure game mechanics for another brief, relaxing jaunt that serves as a welcome antidote to the noise of AAA blockbuster excess. |
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| Game Informer |
Ben Reeves |
8.3 / 10 |
02-25-2022 |
Far: Changing Tides isn’t an action-packed roller coaster ride – it’s a contemplative journey that isn’t afraid to slow down and ask you to reflect on your expedition. Of course, this adventure is full of challenges to overcome. But whether I was watching the clouds glide over a flooded city with the wind at my back or white-knuckling through a storm as ten-foot waves bombarded my ship, I was always completely enrapt by the moment. It’s a journey I hope to take again someday. |
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| Game Rant |
Ramon Hara |
4.5 / 5 stars |
02-21-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides takes everything fans loved about Lone Sails while offering a better exploration game set in the perilous sea. |
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| Gameblog |
HighJAHking |
7 / 10 |
03-17-2022 |
FAR : Changing Tide is a nice journey through a flooded world on a ship that becomes one of the game’s protagonists. The visuals are awesome, and the OST and sound design are in a league of their own. Just don’t expect any challenge or much action in what is essentially a very calm experience. |
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| Gamefa |
امیرحسین رنجبر |
8.5 / 10 |
03-18-2022 |
Playing Far Changing Tides instills a sense of a long journey to the player more than most games with bigger worlds and more freedom of action. |
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| GameGrin |
Artura Dawn |
7.5 / 10 |
04-30-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides is a phenomenal atmospheric game, as the visuals and sound design amalgamate wonderfully. However, you might be disappointed if you go into it expecting more. |
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| GameMAG |
Unknown |
8 / 10 |
03-05-2022 |
Sometimes between big and bombastic games like Horizon Forbiden West and Elden Ring you just want to experience something with a smaller scale, and Far: Changing Tides is a perfect game for this exact purpose. You can finish it in around 3 hours, but the melancholic feels the game provides won’t leave you for quite a while. |
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| GameSpace |
Brau3er |
8.5 / 10 |
03-07-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides has no enemies, leveling, or missions. It’s just a beautiful game. It has only you, nature and the ship, which will take almost all of your attention. Well, there are obstacles to overcome. It is ideal for those who like to relax while watching the beautiful views. And for those who spend hours in the garage trying to start their car. |
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| GameSpew |
Kim Snaith |
7 / 10 |
02-28-2022 |
Far: Changing Tides isn’t going to be for everyone. But if the idea of a quiet, lonesome adventure about keeping your boat moving forward puts wind in your sails, you’ll love it. There’s a wonderful soundtrack to enjoy, and the puzzles it presents to you are engaging and well thought-out. But sometimes it’s just a little too barren for its own good, and the awkwardness of controlling your ship can get in the way of its serenity. |
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| GameWatcher |
Bogdan Robert |
7.5 / 10 |
02-28-2022 |
Far: Changing Tides largely sticks to the same recipe as its predecessor, making its vessel more complex and sending players on a journey through a different world. Its description as a companion game is fitting – although you will get slightly more out of it if you play the series in order – and while I loved the original, the sequel didn’t grab me as much. |
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| GamingTrend |
Lawrence Le |
70 / 100 |
02-25-2022 |
The sequel to FAR: Lone Sails scours off the rust and polishes the rest to an acceptable shine. It’s a well-oiled machine that runs for twice as long, with a lot more adventure hiding under its hood to compensate for the series’ shortcomings. |
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| Generación Xbox |
Gabriel Fuentes |
8 / 10 |
02-25-2022 |
A short game, yes, but enjoyable from every point of view if you are not looking for some constant action to get speed to your fingers with a variety of commands. Far: Changing Tides renews faith in the elements that indie studios can bring to the industry and reinforces my belief that you don’t need to have a giant budget to create an adventure. |
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| God is a Geek |
Chris White |
9 / 10 |
02-21-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides is a beautiful game with a stunning soundtrack that puts you in control of a ship you’ll build a fantastic bond with. |
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| Guardian |
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell |
3 / 5 stars |
03-24-2022 |
Singlehandedly manage a steampunk sailboat in this ramshackle but glorious anti-open world game |
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| Hey Poor Player |
Andrew Thornton |
4.5 / 5 stars |
02-21-2022 |
These are nitpicks though. Far: Changing Tides manages to take players on an emotionally engaging journey without a word, with a ship and the seas as your only companions. From beautiful isolation comes an unforgettable experience. If this sounds remotely like something that’s for you, definitely check it out. |
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| IGN |
Tom Marks |
7 / 10 |
02-28-2022 |
Far: Changing Tides lacks some of what made its predecessor truly special, but it’s still another lovely roadtrip to take. |
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| IGN Italy |
Nicholas Mercurio |
8 / 10 |
03-03-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides is a fun video game with an enveloping and touching story that improves on the good that had been done in the past with FAR: Lone Sails. |
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| Niche Gamer |
Brandon Orselli |
9 / 10 |
03-17-2022 |
I had an enthralling time playing and experiencing an aquatic, post-apocalyptic world in FAR: Changing Tides, and the game shines as an example of true high art in video games. FAR: Changing Tides is a little gem that cannot be missed, it’s a masterfully crafted emotional adventure. |
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| Nintendo Life |
Roland Ingram |
9 / 10 |
02-21-2022 |
A wonderful experience from the moment you set sail, FAR: Changing Tides builds out the world and gameplay ideas of its predecessor with scale, detail and awesome moments of discovery. Okomotive has started with its original neat mechanic about a left-to-right juggernaut, then taken it in every other direction it could go. |
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| PC Gamer |
Tom Sykes |
86 / 100 |
03-04-2022 |
Satisfying sailing in a beautifully soggy apocalypse. I’ve never felt so connected to a vehicle in a game. |
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| PC Invasion |
Cameron Woolsey |
8 / 10 |
02-21-2022 |
Far: Changing Tides may be familiar to those who played the original, but it’s just as soothing and enjoyable a trip as ever. |
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| PlayStation Universe |
Alan Strawbridge |
8.5 / 10 |
02-24-2022 |
A gentle and meditative story which combines simple platforming puzzles and some basic steam engineering to great effect. Beautifully illustrated and scored, FAR Changing Tides is a joyful experience for patient players who are happy to jump aboard this serene cruise through a flooded but gorgeously bleak post-climate changed world. |
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| Push Square |
Graham Banas |
7 / 10 |
02-25-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides is largely more of the same. With how good the first title is, that’s not a bad thing, but it leaves a little something to be desired. Great sound design and music, as well as incredible environmental art, don’t quite balance out the pacing issues, hard as they try. Your new vessel has more components to juggle than last time, and it’s mechanically satisfying, but you spend too much time doing it. While traveling underwater does add a new gameplay component to account for, the puzzles don’t offer enough of a challenge. All that said, Changing Tides is still worth your time. |
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| Reno Gazette-Journal |
Jason Hidalgo |
8 / 10 |
03-18-2022 |
Like its predecessor, FAR: Changing Tides serves up a poignant journey through a lonely apocalyptic landscape with a bigger ship, a bigger world and a bigger scope overall. At the same time, it still retains that same claustrophobic feel and charm while serving up all sorts of environmental puzzles for you to solve. The extra mechanics can admittedly be frustrating to deal with at times as you find yourself juggling many things at once and it also doesn’t quite have the same sense of newness for veterans of the first game. Overall, however, FAR: Changing Tides is the kind of game that makes you wonder and also makes you think, which is a credit to the compelling atmosphere that it deftly provides. |
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| Rock, Paper, Shotgun |
Sam Greer |
Recommended |
02-21-2022 |
Hardship is more central to Changing Tides than Lone Sails. It moves backwards in time to the apocalypse while we move forward to meet it. Reconciling that unease is not something it treats lightly, yet there is still hope to be found. I’m grateful for that. If you give FAR: Changing Tides the handful of hours it takes to complete, I think you will be too. |
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| Saving Content |
Scott Ellison II |
4 / 5 stars |
03-11-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides offers a richer and fuller experience over its predecessor. Okomotive went above and beyond to make the puzzles more involved and elaborate, yet intuitive to solve rather quickly. The environmental storytelling of Changing Tides is equally compelling and emotionally impactful. There’s not a demanding aspect of the game, and it likes to let you breathe for some truly relaxing moments. While you should play FAR: Lone Sails first, they’re complimentary to one another and I must implore that you play both regardless of order. FAR: Changing Tides is a wonderful sequel, it has so many wondrous moments of greatness that you won’t forget. |
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| Screen Rant |
Rob Gordon |
4 / 5 stars |
02-22-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides is a real triumph. There’s a phenomenal depth to the experience here, from its striking ambiance through to a compelling gameplay loop, while the sense of exploration is truly remarkable. Fans of FAR: Lone Sails will no doubt love this, but those who have not played the first game should not shy away from this one. |
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| SECTOR.sk |
Lukáš Zábojník |
8 / 10 |
03-30-2022 |
Wandering with the little hero and his unconventional craft in a flooded world full of obstacles is melancholic, but also therapeutic. |
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| Shacknews |
TJ Denzer |
8 / 10 |
02-21-2022 |
The mystery of this broken world and the wordless, yet varied means by which you explore it makes FAR: Changing Tides an excellent follow-up to Lone Sails. The vessel is incredibly enjoyable to operate and maintain, and the music and world around it make the journey a compelling and satisfying one. It’s not a long game and the adventure arrives at the credits before you know it, but for what it has going, Changing Tides is a compelling and gorgeous puzzle full of satisfying mechanical engagement and incredible breakthrough moments as you sail ever forward. |
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| Sirus Gaming |
Erickson Melchor |
8.5 / 10 |
03-07-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides is more concerned with showing a story rather than actually telling one, and it absolutely works out in its favor. Yet again, the series manages to tell an entire story without a single line of dialog. There aren’t many thrilling moments throughout the journey, but the ones we do have are some of the most eye-opening ones that I couldn’t even imagine being possible, even in the last game. There are very few games that allow you to look inward the way the FAR series does. If you’ve played and enjoyed the first game, you owe it yourself to have this game be part of your collection. |
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| Softpedia |
Cosmin Vasile |
8 / 10 |
03-14-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides even when it’s at its best feels like the game world itself: empty. It feels a bit that the game aspect was less important than the experience part. I believe FAR: Lone Sails offers a much more dynamic experience than the sequel. |
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| The Games Machine |
Nicolò Paschetto |
8.6 / 10 |
02-21-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides will give you time and space to think of what it means to go through a journey and question your ideas around home and belonging. After you finish it, you will not forget you have played this game. In a good way. |
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| TheSixthAxis |
Gareth Chadwick |
8 / 10 |
02-21-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides is a mysterious, intriguing game. It builds off the inventive mechanics of managing a ship, the adventure you face taking on a vaguely unsettling tone at times. It’s also fairly short – I finished it in about five hours – but that means it also doesn’t try and stretch out its ideas until it outstays its welcome. This is an original and artistic game that deserves a little appreciation. |
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| Thumbsticks |
Daniel New |
3.5 / 5 stars |
03-08-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides doesn’t surpass the achievements of FAR: Lone Sails – but it comes close – and is another example of Okomotive’s considerable talents. |
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| TrueGaming |
Unknown |
7 / 10 |
03-13-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides is not a bad experience, it’s a great experience for those looking for a slow-moving game that brings comfort and recuperation away from the usual challenges, an experience that will no doubt appeal to everyone. |
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| Twinfinite |
Andrew McMahon |
4 / 5 stars |
03-09-2022 |
Even with slight hiccups like this, I still adored my time with Far: Changing Tides. The gameplay and design are reminiscent of Playdead’s Limbo and Inside, while featuring a beautiful setting that really draws you into the world without ever saying a word. If you like puzzle games and are looking for a quick and scenic adventure, then Far: Changing Tides is going to be just for you. |
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| Video Chums |
A.J. Maciejewski |
8 / 10 |
03-16-2022 |
As someone who usually doesn’t enjoy meditative gaming experiences, I must admit that FAR: Changing Tides completely captivated me. |
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| Washington Post |
Christopher Byrd |
Recommended |
03-25-2022 |
“FAR: Changing Tides” ably evokes the blissful passion of travel. It is the perfect antidote to overly stuffed, bloated video games. |
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| We Got This Covered |
Eric Hall |
4 / 5 stars |
03-09-2022 |
Contemplative and striking, FAR: Changing Tides is an indie adventure that should be sought out. The light gameplay and sparse storytelling may not be for everyone, but it makes up for these deficiencies with its gorgeous visual design and excellent pace. |
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| Windows Central |
Cole Martin |
4 / 5 stars |
03-10-2022 |
FAR: Changing Tides is the follow-up to FAR: Lone Sails, following a little boy named Toe as he leaves his home in a makeshift boat after an unseen apocalyptic event. There is no dialogue or combat, leaving all of FAR’s storytelling to be interpreted by the player as they solve puzzles to overcome obstacles on their travels. |
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| Xbox Achievements |
Richard Walker |
80 / 100 |
02-21-2022 |
Mysterious, beautiful, and almost dreamlike, FAR: Changing Tides betters its predecessor, delivering a truly memorable and engaging seafaring journey. |
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