Hollowreach Expedition

Hollowreach Expedition is all about moving through a quiet, mysterious world and piecing together what happened there. You climb, swim, and solve light environmental puzzles while the environment slowly tells its own story.

There's barely any text, which we loved. Clues come from the architecture, murals on cave walls, and the occasional glowing mechanism waiting to be activated. It respects your attention and never over-explains.

Performance holds up well even on older phones, and the touch controls for climbing are more precise than we expected. It's a slower game, best played with headphones in the evening rather than in short bursts.

What we liked

• A world that tells its story without words
• Precise climbing and swimming controls
• Runs smoothly on modest hardware