FAR: Changing Tides

If you loved FAR: Lone Sails then you would love this, too.

More specifically, if you are doubtful as to whether the original game, as self-contained and narrowly-focused as it was, needed or would welcome a sequel then rest assured: this game really does add to and elaborate the formula in delightful ways. In short, it's not merely more of the same. Your ship is more complex, the puzzles longer, the world-building grander. And—without spoilers—it really does add charming elements to the original story.

And it would also stand alone fine on its own. If you insist on only playing one of these games (why?!) then this is the more fully realized one.

Some of my original complaints still stand. The zoom system is silly and annoying: you need to keep buttons pressed to zoom in and out, and so you might spend much of the game with buttons pressed depending on how much detail you want to take in. Also, I'm sad that with its gorgeous color palette it does not support HDR. With FAR: Lone Sails I could turn on Windows 11's auto-HDR, and it worked very well, but this game is incompatible with that feature and so we are stuck in SDR.