Future Imperfectīeautiful Desolation could use more signposting if anything. But as you explore broken cities, decaying forests, and sprawling swampland, it’s hard not to be impressed by the level of detail. The story will funnel you along a linear route with occasional branches into other areas.
You won’t be able to explore everywhere you can see, for instance. The environments are dense for a Switch game, even if much of it is window dressing. Although, this would feel like more of a negative if the art style wasn’t so incredibly beautiful. You’ll often need to go out looking for things that you won’t fully understand or be able to easily identify.
There’s lore and flavour text all over the place that helps piece together what’s going on, but the minute-to-minute gameplay is quite slow-paced. This is a linear story broken up only by long segments of dialogue, or well-drawn cutscenes that flesh out the story. It may look like a more invested RPG like, say, Disco Elysium, but Beautiful Desolation is not that. Being a point-and-click adventure means a lot of exploration and inventiveness and collecting and combining various items to solve puzzles. This involves helping or hindering the people of this distant futurescape. Mark’s primary objective is to work with Don and Pooch to get back home. It’s a world of bizarre, augmented creatures and scattered humans who seem, above all, to be simply trying to survive. This is where Beautiful Desolation gets its title from. They find themselves in a world of haunting, decayed beauty. A heated exchange with security sees Mark, Don and one of the aforementioned robotic guard dogs (aptly named Pooch), catapulted into the far future. Beautiful Desolation: A gorgeous, thoughtful adventureĭuring their excursion things go bad.
Don Leslie is a former military pilot who now flies curious tourists up close to the Penrose. As the narrative opens we travel with Mark to his brother’s air tours company. Reporter Mark Leslie is especially wary of it as he suffered a tragedy when it arrived, but he channels that into curiosity. The story begins below the Penrose, in South Africa. This is a version of 1985 with drones and robotic guard dogs, but it seems to be a time of secrets and half-truths, as people struggle to understand what the Penrose is and what it wants from us. However, the mystery of what it is and where it’s from remains. Like the Traveller in Destiny, the Penrose seemed benevolent, accelerating human technology by hundreds of years. Beautiful Desolation is set in an alternate timeline, ten years after the arrival of the Penrose.
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