Can t Stop Playing is our monthly celebration of a game we’re loving. This month we’re stats grinding in childlike fantasy animal battler Temtem. Watch out for more articles on it throughout the month.
Temtem’s early access release doesn’t wrap up with a nice, warm hug offering clarity and closure. Instead it leaves you on a literal cliffhanger, hook-slinging your way from precipice to precipice on the way to the sweltering savannahs of Kisiwa, a to-be-released island apparently teeming with political unrest and Earth Temtems.
I’m not frustrated that the game doesn’t currently have a more concrete conclusion. Temtem signs off with carefully selected vignettes designed to show what the game has to offer in the long run: a vivid, vibrant world that will keep expanding.