You can also learn four-chord Soul Melodies, which have a direct impact on the world around you – attracting specific animals for you to Soul Jump into, altering the time of day, or shifting the weather around you. Eight chords can be plucked, and when played in the right progressions will create soothing melodies which can be easily recreated in real life should you feel the impulse. That's a tool that Tchia can wield at any time, which developer Awaceb has recreated with startling accuracy.

There are many moments in my time with Tchia that I could point to as a highlight – that worked to slow my breathing and calm my worried mind from the world around me – although I do want to focus on the ukulele. Join us all throughout January as we explore the biggest upcoming video games of 2023, and the developers making them. Plenty of games released in the wake of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild have indulged in free climbing systems, which let you ascend anything in the world without restriction, and open navigation, allowing you to build momentum with physics-based objects around you, although Tchia takes it one step further.īig in 2023 is the GamesRadar+ guide to the most anticipated games of the year. Of course, Awaceb has crafted a heartfelt narrative for you to pursue in Tchia – one which is directly inspired by New Caledonian cultures – although right now it's fun to do anything but. Gliding across gorgeous open plains, catapulting between bending trees, and gracefully scaling mountaintops is an absolute delight, as too is the freedom to head to whatever point of interest that catches your attention after a brief scan of the horizon.

Exploration feels fantastic, enough so that you're effectively able to enter a flow state as you gradually gather momentum.

What's clear is that Tchia has a strong sense of identity, with its prioritization of movement and locomotion helping to set it apart from other sandbox games already available. After playing Tchia, I'm not certain I really understand what the point to all this is, but then I'm also not sure that I care all that much either.

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