Eternal Strands is a great reminder that creative tools and reactiveness in big open-world sandboxes trump content bloat | Gaming

Eternal Strands has quietly become one of early 2025’s biggest surprises. While it’s not topping the sales charts nor dominating the online conversation, the sentiment which surrounds it is generally positive, and in the age of bloated open-world experiences (which are otherwise good), many players are finding great comfort in its smarter approach to world size and tightening the gameplay loop.

Yellow Brick Games, founded in 2020 by AAA industry veterans from BioWare, Ubisoft, Blizzard, and EA, has knocked out a notable game that feels neither too big nor small, in roughly four years. With the industry facing many difficulties as I type these words and polarisation leading to bigger and more expensive experiences as well as small itty bitty indies that often bite more…more

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