

Sayonara Wild Hearts is an equal parts rhythm action game and visualiser for one of the catchiest pop albums you’ll ever listen to. If you’re worried about adding to your already bloated backlog with yet another game, just remember that you can have this one done in a single sitting if you put your mind to it, and you definitely should, because what awaits you is an utterly beautiful experience. There's also a game and digital soundtrack bundle for £17.48, that's currently discounted to £11.89.“….Sayonara Wild Hearts has refused to leave my brain in the four years since its release.”Īs far as previous games we’ve featured in this little series of ours go, Sayonara Wild Hearts is the easiest sell of all when it comes to games you should play before you die, based solely on the fact that you can complete it in an hour and a half. Sayonara Wild Hearts costs £10.29 on Steam, but there's 20% off until next Thursday, 19th December, bringing it down to £8.23. It can reference Panzer Dragoon, Jet Set Radio, Dyad and Thumper while remaining entirely coherent, entirely itself."



" such a simple thing but also such a complex thing, such a heartfelt thing," he wrote, "Its exuberance is precision, its chaos is sheer choreography. What follows is a gorgeous treat of an experience, and a game about - as Sayonara Wild Hearts' Steam page puts it - "being awesome, riding motorcycles, skateboarding, dance battling, shooting lasers, wielding swords, and breaking hearts at 200 mph".Įurogamer's Christian Donlan was swept away by Sayonara Wild Hearts' heady rhythm-action delights when he slapped it with a Recommended badge earlier this year, calling it a "dizzying headlong rush of ideas, pranks, nightmares, middle-eights and other glittering fragments". Sayonara Wild Hearts, which Simogo describes as a "euphoric music video dream", tells the story of a young woman spirited away to a mysterious world of neon lights and catchy pop, where she meets her alter-ego The Fool. Developer Simogo's sublime music game Sayonara Wild Hearts has - after a couple of months on Switch, PlayStation 4, and iOS - finally launched on PC.
