Sable

2026-02-07 Tags: games

It's a great game!

You play as a young woman on a desert planet, leaving your tribe as part of a coming of age ritual, to ride your hover bike around the vast deserts, meet people, and figure out what you want to do with your life (by helping people and collecting masks representing roles and jobs you could take on).

The art is inspired by the french comic artist Moebius, the characters animate delightfully at a lower framerate to mimic hand drawn animations.

The hidden history of the sci fi world is great, the worldbuilding in general is rewarding and spread out subtly in conversations and clothing and architectural details.

It's great zooming around on your hover bike, careening off sand dunes, watching the air vortices behind your wing tips.

The climbing and floating play similarly to Breath of the Wild, and the world is full of secrets, but fewer, so a lot of the focus feels like being in the world and exploring it for its own sake, rather than always finding a korok seed or shrine behind the corner.

Great experience, highly recommended.