Hello Neyyah adventurers! It has been a while!
Lots of work has been going into the world of Neyyah to bring the most enriching, immersive, exciting adventure game experience to your screens! The Steam Next Fest back in February brought some amazing feedback through the Neyyah portal, and I've been busy with arranging various aspects of the game - polishing, testing, and improving ...
And as such, there's a been a cool tweak to Neyyah's overall gameplay: the implementation of 'Journey Modes'.
Neyyah offers a complex, thought-provoking experience.
You are thrown into a world where you need to keep your mind open. It's not just a puzzle game. It's foremost a world, full of complex lore and in order to make progress, you'll need to dissect and understand what is happening around you - what is useful to you to achieve your 'main goals' and what is merely part of the world you are in (and Neyyah gives you that rich engaging gameplay experience of soaking up EVERYTHING, whether you are in for the puzzle solves or the world exploration).
Be part of this world. 'Journey Modes' can make this easier for you, depending on your preferred style of gameplay.
There has already been the implementation of the Traveller's Guide, which sets in place 'automatically generated observations' which are collected upon certain observations or interactions within the game.
You come across a machine with a symbol, you can find this encounter within your Traveller's Guide, for example. There are also images to help you keep track of where abouts you were when you came across any specific encounter, keeping you orientated throughout the game, and if you take a break from Neyyah's shores, come back and jump into Traveller's Guide if you need to so you can pick up nice and easily.
Of course, keeping track of what you learn about Neyyah is always more fun with the good ol' pen and paper!
With Journey Mode, you can also decide how tight the 'hand held experience' through Neyyah's world should be - or if you require it at all ...
You can be 'Guided by the Ancients', which gives you the most assistance throughout the game (with various prompts, and automatically sets your Traveller's Guide Notifications to on within the Options menu, so whenever a new observation comes through, you'll be notified!). Hear some 'Whispers in the Wind', cutting back on a lot of prompts but making sure you stay orientated with location and map update notifications, or shape your own adventure with 'Master Your Own Adventure' - it's just you, a mouse, the ability to point and click around a vast prerendered world, and you won't be bothered with any pop ups / prompts or notifications. This harkens back to a very OG Myst / Riven experience.
You will, however, have access to your Journey Tools in whatever Journey Mode you select, where you can find maps, Traveller's Guide (to see what you have interacted with, etc) and the ability to change your Journey Mode at any point during the game!
Neyyah is a world which should be enjoyed by all types of adventure gamer types! 'Jouney Modes' provides this!
A small add with BIG impact ...
As well as this, a new feature will be added very soon.
It will be a 'Main Goals' listing, which automatically updates as you encounter 'core elements' of Neyyah's world which in turn will send you on your main goals to finally completing the game. There won't be many, as the idea is to shine your attention on what it is you could be aiming towards when playing Neyyah. The Traveller's Guide gives you numerous observations. The 'Main Goals' will provide you the areas of focus you can play towards, and eventually, tick off to complete Neyyah.
Take it, or leave it. The option is always yours.
You'll be able to play Neyyah YOUR way!
I'm excited to see what directions you take in this complex vast world, but also how you shape your adventure!
Until next time ...
.YY.