Ubisoft announced today a new experiential game for PC players worldwide, called Ode. Ode is an enchanting visual and musical journey through beautiful landscapes. In order to celebrate this announcement, the French company released the game’s launch trailer, and you can watch it below.
Unlike traditional games, Ode has no guide, tutorial or hints allowing players to explore the sensory worlds around them at their own pace, direction and curiosity. Therefore, the player’s only goal is to simply spread joy.
The player travels through distinct musical gardens as Joy, collecting fallen stars. The more stars the player collects the greater the intensity of sound and visuals is experienced. Furthermore, the game comes with four words for players to explore.
In Ode, the gardens are full of musical plants that emit specific notes to help players to build a musical background in each level. Soft challenges unlock layers to create a unique composition based on the player play style.
Ubisoft created Ode with the simple goal of bringing a joyful and pleasing experience to players. Moreover, this light-hearted and delightful game comes from Ubisoft Reflections, the studio behind Grow Home, Grow Up, and most recently, Atomega.
Ode is available today on Uplay PC worldwide.
Enjoy!
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Not on Steam. Is it a Uplay Exclusive?
at the end of the trailer only uplay displayed. so it is.
This could mean the start of no more Ubisoft games on Steam. Hoping that is not the case.
yeah. hopefully for AAA ubisoft game still on steam..
“Ubisoft announced today a new experiential game”
Exclusive to their ‘experimental’ digital store that’s otherwise host to their ‘experimental’ business practices, ‘experimental’ history with DRM and ‘experimental’ relationship with honesty and the truth.
“the player’s only goal is to simply spread joy”
Avoiding Ubisoft products is often a necessary step toward achieving such a goal.
Not on Steam. Is it a Uplay Exclusive?
All Ubisoft games sold on Steam still try to sneak in their Uplay crapware.
Just got this game, wow it is actually amazing!
100% recommend it and that for a moment you should put your Ubisoft hate aside(if you have any). The game does not hold your hand and has some really dope gameplay mechanics and the visuals look amazing. Heck it even supports multi screen configs, I am playing it in 5760×1080.
If you like games like Flower, Journey, ABZÛ etc you will love this. The gameplay is basically that you collect these certain little balls from the environment and plant things(they collect behind you and follow you once you get them). You have a chuck the balls you collected and suck them back and attract. You figure out how to do different moves with certain plants and objects and use the attract and balls with those plants etc. You have a jump button as well, there is also a puzzle aspect to the game.
It is very enjoyable to play and really cool to figure out how to use certain plants to get to certain balls you collect or different areas.
Also just a FYI other than Steam achievements any Ubisoft game in Steam is just a Uplay game that is auto launched to Uplay. Just saying, but of course it is your guys call do what you got to do.
Hope this helps anyone that is interested in the game.
Also big thanks to John for the heads up, I never heard of the game till today.
I stopped buying Ubisoft games some years ago and neither missed them or regretted them for a moment.
For as long as they insist on forcing their fickle, unstable and hated Uplay platform onto their customers, I shall stay away from them.