Fans of fairly little scenes, dolls’ homes, landscaping, and clicking on issues may fancy a have a look at Quiet As A Stone, a game I’ve for a number of months struggled to clarify properly. These wee rocks are floating in house, proper, coated in bushes and grass and rocks and issues, and you may click on to chop grass and break stones to get surroundings items like crops and bushes and partitions and new rocks to redecorate the scene as you please. It’s a quiet and nice curio, and it’s now launched on Steam with a giant replace.
I prefer it. I’ve performed bits on and off since Quiet As A Stone first launched earlier this yr on Itch. Sometimes I plant gardens, construct ruins, and erect mysterious circles of monoliths. Sometimes I look across the completely different landscapes, watching day and night time and rain and shine come and go. Sometimes I simply click on on stuff to chop grass and smash gems as a result of clicking is enjoyable.
It is unusual, the intersection of moody dioramas and clicking. If you need to redecorate scenes, you’ll need to click on to chop grass and smash stones to find new objects to put. But it’s not a clicker game, as a result of the one progress is… attending to make more-elaborate dioramas? Which I’m okay with.
The Steam launch in late November was accompanied by an replace with massive efficiency enhancements and, much more vital, wee campfires crackling away in lots of scenes.
It’s made by Richard Whitelock of Distant Lantern Studios. He began Quiet As A Stone in 2015 to assist “work through a few ideas” for his different tasks, together with the gorgeous and lethal tourism ’em up Into This Wylde Abyss, then fell deep into it. I’d forgotten all about Wylde Abyss; now I’m reminded how a lot I need to wander with a digicam whereas slowly freezing to dying.
Quiet As A Stone is out now for £7.19/€8.19/$9.99 on Steam and Itch.io. If you got it on Itch, it is best to now have a Steam key to redeem.
Here’s Whitelock mucking about with an older model again in January:
