Highwater

I really enjoyed playing this game. I’m already at the part where Nikos and friends got inside Alphaville but suddenly it froze, whenever I try to close the app to restart it, it still goes back to the part where it froze… so I can’t continue the game anymore. I’m afraid that if I delete the game and re-install it all my data will be erased and I’ll have to start over :/ But overall, I love this game! I love the battle part!

I don’t usually write reviews but this game is unbelievable. The animation and storyline and all the characters blew my mind and I can’t think of a single negative thing about it. I wish there was a second part to this because of how amazing this game is and I will never regret getting this game

Game seems racist.

This is a great little game. It’s not long, which I think is fine. The writing is great, with plenty of literary and pop culture references that made me chuckle, even if some went over my head. The radio station with original soundtrack was also excellent. The graphics aren’t super high-res but are decent. The turn-based battles are basically puzzles - the key is to find the right tactics, and although with a few exceptions they aren’t that hard I enjoyed them trying to win them in the fewest turns. I was pleasantly surprised that unlike all the other Netflix games I’ve played I found no bugs, and the game was stable - it didn’t crash on me once. Some other reviewers have complained about bugs, so maybe they’ve all been fixed or maybe I was lucky!

It’s becoming a recurring theme with Netflix offered mobile games. I enjoy everything about this game, but I reached a bug that doesn’t allow me to progress in the game. I would love to be able to finish this game and have it fixed.

I had a great few hours playing through Highwater. The graphics are good, the sound design is probably the best I’ve seen, and the combat and exploration are fun and streamlined. I found the difficulty level to be well balanced: easy enough for newcomers to the genre, just hard enough for XCOM veterans to be challenged if they want to do a perfect run, and no penalties either way. Suggestion to devs: the very beginning is a bit off-putting, I almost gave it up within the first five minutes and I would have missed out on a great game! In particular: the first long stretch of driving is boring, maybe start with an action sequence. Also, the white compass dots not disappearing after clearing up an area makes it seem like something was missed. Finally, on the fighting: Nikos is deadweight after the early game, maybe make him more of a true support. And Josephine’s blood lust is super fun to play, but maybe have more obstacles so she can’t too easily eviscerate 5 enemies in one turn.

Why does every “adventure” game have to have violence? Seriously, someone please come up with an adventure game that does not have violence and I will tell everyone about it. Also the navigation of the boat was not very user friendly.

This game was so much fun. The story is fantastic! And the music? Wow. I really want some of those songs so I can relisten. The ending literally left me with goosebumps. For a mobile game? This is next level. Highly recommend!!!! And here’s to hoping for some sort of sequel! For the devs: There were a few bugs I encountered: 1) the green zones that extract your characters once you reach them? They didn’t extract my characters. Made some battles challenging. 2) Any booster dealing with increased health did not increase the health. 3) The generator battle, the enemy bugs out and it gets stuck on the enemy’s turn. A couple things I would love to see is: 1) a way to view each person’s attack descriptions while not in battle. 2) a way to change/apply boosters in battle. I’d right before (like with a warning or continue/confirm question type screen)

It’s a pretty good game but there’s always room for improvement.

Gladly the bugs that many other reviews have expressed seem to be worked out: I couldn’t get beached, the compass-like door was helpful, and I didn’t notice any bugs myself. The boating seemed accurate and I had to drive differently than a car as a result - that was mostly fun but there were too many straight drives with nothing to see and no plot development. The next thing to do was always clear and so were “hidden things” so I wasn’t endlessly searching the waterways. Sadly the moral drift (pun intended) had apparently affected this post-apocalyptic earth in every way and the radio itself was at times explicit. Some of this is understandable and necessary for the game, but not all of it. It was also a bummer to have items be stuck equipped to party members that left the party. I would change that.