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Inward

82%Game Brain Score
graphics, music
optimization, stability
82% User Score Based on 98 reviews

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Discover, grow and name your own species of trees. Watch as the seed transforms from a sapling to a majestic tree. Water the tree with your mindfulness, habits and insights. Grow and discover yourself with the help of a stray dog called Samsara.

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82%
Audience ScoreBased on 98 reviews
graphics6 positive mentions
optimization3 negative mentions
  • Inward provides a calming and relaxing experience, helping users develop a consistent meditation practice with positive reinforcement.
  • The visuals and audio are praised for their beauty and soothing qualities, enhancing the overall meditation experience.
  • The game encourages daily engagement and offers a sense of progress through the growth of a personal sanctuary, making meditation feel rewarding.
  • The game suffers from poor optimization, causing high CPU usage and overheating issues on many devices, which detracts from the experience.
  • Many users feel that the game lacks depth and is more of a meditation app than a game, leading to disappointment for those expecting traditional gameplay.
  • There are concerns about the game's abandonment and lack of updates, leaving it feeling unfinished and buggy.
  • graphics
    11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The graphics of the game receive mixed reviews; while many users praise the stunning visuals and ambient sound, some express concerns about performance issues, such as high resource usage that can strain PCs. Additionally, the bright colors can be overwhelming for some players, detracting from the overall aesthetic experience. Overall, the game is appreciated for its visual appeal, particularly in the context of mindfulness and meditation, but technical issues and design choices have left some players wanting more.

    • “Stunning graphics, great music, and a wonderful game!”
    • “The visuals are stunning, the ambient sound is crispy, and overall this is a great tool for meditation.”
    • “Clearly inward takes playne's core idea - a mindfulness game, as a starting point but fixes *every* issue I had with playne, making this a good game to recommend for mindfulness, with nice visuals and feedback (visual growth) on your efforts.”
    • “Nothing as basic as this when it comes to graphics should make your PC (well above and beyond the recommended requirements) sound like it's about to take off.”
    • “It's really not normal that a meditation game with these graphics makes my laptop enter jet engine mode.”
    • “It's nice talking to a wolf and all, but why does my graphics card run at 100% while doing a meditation?”
  • music
    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The music in the game is widely praised for its beauty and emotional depth, enhancing the overall experience with soft sounds and a complementary blend of narration. Players appreciate how the music and scenery contribute to a meditative atmosphere, making the world feel vibrant and immersive. Overall, the soundtrack is considered a significant highlight, adding to the game's appeal.

    • “Stunning graphics, great music, and a wonderful game!”
    • “The guided meditation is very good; the soft sounds, accompanying music, and narration all blend together in a highly complimentary fashion.”
    • “Music and scenery of your world you create is beautiful and adds small additions the longer days you meditate.”
    • “Not something I'd spend hours on since it appears you're just 'meditating', but the sounds/music are pretty (somewhat sad...) and the world is created with a bright nature-type appeal.”
    • “The music and scenery of the world you create are beautiful, but they only add small enhancements to the longer days you meditate.”
  • optimization
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game is widely criticized for its poor optimization, causing significant performance issues that resemble running a heavily modded version of The Sims. Many users feel it is unfinished and unpolished, expressing hope for future improvements in optimization.

    • “It's insanely poorly optimized; my whole computer starts running like I've turned on my Sims game with 15 expansions and a terabyte of mods.”
    • “This meditation simulator is still unfinished, unpolished, and poorly optimized.”
    • “I hope the plan is to make it more optimized.”
  • emotional
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Players find the game's emotional aspect to be heartwarming and uplifting, highlighting its wholesome concept that resonates positively with them.

    • “Such a wholesome concept”
  • stability
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The initial release of the game faced significant bugs, but the developer quickly addressed the major issues within a few weeks, leading to improved stability.

    • “The initial release was quite buggy, but the developer resolved the most glaring issues in a matter of a couple of weeks.”

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