critical acclaim for eternal strands
“[Eternal Strands’] narrative is deeply engaging, weaving a tale of loss, resilience, and hope.”
— Rectify Gaming
“…the game expertly and exquisitely craft[s] a dense, multilayered, and vibrant adventure set against memorable settings… Eternal Strands does its best to make each of your return trips through its seven main maps as interesting as possible, slowly throwing in stronger enemies, changing up the epic monster encounters, and varying the extreme weather and time of day. But the characterizations are what most fuel those return trips, specifically the need to help your companions not just with repairs to the Enclave, but with, say, their small-scale romances and imposter syndromes. The scenery in Eternal Strands is pretty, and its combat is as captivating as its plot, but it’s the game’s earnest belief in family being everything that makes it so impressive.”
— Slant
“But what I legitimately love is how much Eternal Strands' designers seem to love the game's story, too. This love shows not only in endless dialogue choices and vast amounts of codex entries that have been scattered across the land and must be reclaimed and stitched back together, but also in the little details and embellishments that a story only gets if the people writing it have thought way too much about things… this is a game made of sheer pluck and ingenuity.”
— Eurogamer
“It’s also worth calling out (without spoilers) that queerness is genuinely centred in its narrative in multiple ways, both explicitly and thematically. Brynn’s band of Weavers are a true chosen family, you get opportunities to witness and pursue queer romance – and it’s just horny enough to fuel the fanfics of any Dragon Age diehard. Great stuff.”
— Checkpoint Gaming
“The efforts made to present The Enclave as not just a space for players to exist in but a tangible location with history is admirable… This game is the kind of sandbox players enjoy diving into, one both forgiving and fun. Yet it’s the brilliant narrative and character work that give Yellow Brick Games’ debut an edge, making you come back run after run.”
— Digital Chumps
critical acclaim for necrobarista
“This is a group of characters that will stick with me for a long time.”
— Operation Rainfall
“Necrobarista is a touching, emotional journey that features an excellently written and easily lovable cast of characters.”
— Critical Hit
“...for a game to have that impact on a person, for a work of art to rattle the soul that thoroughly, is perhaps one of the highest forms of art that I can think of.”
— TheGamer
“Necrobarista feels like a pedantically written stage play, putting the focus on the interdependent relations of a small cast. This approach, coupled with a visual direction that shuns monotony, makes this one of the best visual novels of the year.”
— Tech-Gaming
“Necrobarista had me in tears by the end of it…
[it’s] easily one of the best games so far this year and one of the greatest visual novels I’ve ever played.”
— GameGrin
“The writing is stellar. It’s quirky, unexpected, insightful, and, at times, downright punny.”
— Gaming Trend
“Necrobarista truly does feel like a healing exercise by the end.
I kept taking screenshots of witty lines every few minutes; when I wasn’t trying to hold onto the lines that made me laugh, I was busy capturing the ones that made me cry.”
— Fanbyte
★★★★★
— TheGamer
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— Rock Paper Shotgun
★★★★★
— GameGrin
★★★★☆
— Game Informer
youtubers crying, timestamped
“watch this, Lise. you can actually pinpoint the second when his heart rips in half.”