Skybox Labs·Released Oct 11, 2019·Single player
Stela is a cinematic, atmospheric platformer about a young woman witnessing the final days of a mysterious ancient world.
It took me the best part of a month to come back to Stela in order to finish this review. I’m glad I did, as it still had some astonishing sights left to show me. But it was a close call.
Stela is a platform-puzzler that's quite clearly been made in Inside's (and indeed Limbo’s) image. It's a serviceable approximation of Playdead's work, with a beautifully strange world and even a couple of neat ideas of its own. But it fails to immerse you in its world in quite the same way courtesy of some unfortunate flat spots.
An interesting premise that never pays off
