Valley is an action-adventure platformer on Steam with a focus on jumping acrobatics and solving puzzles. (Best playable with controller/gamepad) Valley is a relatively short single-player game with a playing time of around 4 hours. You earn upgrades for your exoskeleton on 9 large maps in order to be able to face the jump, thinking and collecting puzzles. You collect natural energy in order to be able to run faster, jump higher, double jump or defeat opponents. One of the special features of Valley is that opponents can be healed with the collected natural energy instead of destroying them.
It gets tricky when too much natural energy is wasted, not enough collected or missused, because the world in Valley suffers from it and becomes more gloomy and dangerous. However, healing sick trees and animals is important because in many places you need to do it to progress in the game. The story revolves around the game's protagonist who the found exoskeleton, the L.E.A.F. Suit, and must explore an unknown valley in the mid-20th century which is used as a research area by the military. While exploring the area, conspiracies and secrets shake hands with each other, the dangers and knowledge gained in the valley not only endangers the protagonist. In my opinion, the overall story is told well, but you need a little time to understand the most important points of the story, since many story-relevant things are presented slowly.
It may therefore be confusing to some as to why things happen the way they do in Valley.
Listening to the other characters and reading the files lying around are helping enormously here. The core of Valley, jumping, running, collecting and solving puzzles are implemented beautifully and are a lot of fun. What never gets boring is generating momentum to be able to jump over a slope to the other side really fast. Conclusion: Valley is a good title for everyone who would like to play through a complete adventure game, the replay value lies in collecting all trophies and achievements. A solid title for a sale day.
You can find Valley here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/378610/Valley/
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