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The Eternal Cylinder

ACE Team · Sep 30, 2021

PC · PS5 · Series X|S · PS4 · Xbox One

Everyone10+

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In The Eternal Cylinder, players control a herd of adorable creatures called Trebhums and must explore a strange alien world filled with exotic lifeforms, surreal environments, and the constant threat of the Cylinder, a gargantuan rolling structure of ancient origin which crushes everything in its path. This unique ecosystem is a massive, procedurally generated land with unique animal AI, real-time world destruction, and organic exploration and puzzle design to create emergent gameplay that ensures no two playthroughs are ever the same.

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PC

Critic 8.2 (7 critics) · Gamer 9.0

8.2

PlayStation 5

No critic reviews yet · Gamer 9.0

Xbox Series X|S

No critic reviews yet · No ratings yet

PlayStation 4

Critic 7.8 (6 critics) · Gamer 9.1

8.0

Xbox One

Critic 8.2 (4 critics) · Gamer 9.1

8.0

Critic reviews

  • ZTGD

    Anthony Mann · Nov 02, 2021

    9.0
    The Eternal Cylinder is a fever dream of a title that satisfies a lot of my tastes: exploration, puzzles, survival, lots of different abilities, truly alien landscapes, geometric shapes that desire uniformity through destruction of all of life, and hoarding.
  • Xbox Tavern

    AJ Small · Oct 21, 2021

    8.6
    Ace Team have released their best game yet, a fusion of survival, exploration, and platforming. The world is stunning and begs to be explored.
  • Screen Rant

    Leo Faierman · Oct 21, 2021

    7.0
    Adjustable difficulty settings are welcoming, but even on default mode there’s a generosity of checkpointing and saves, and rarely is an attempt punished too harshly; plus, when the permanent mutation system is later unlocked, it feels practically game-breaking. Warts and all, The Eternal Cylinder remains an accessible oddball adventure of one-of-a-kind sights.
  • Softpedia

    Cosmin Vasile · Oct 12, 2021

    10
    The Eternal Cylinder has a cool story, interesting exploration mechanics, a good unique idea in the mutations, and solid presentation. While it starts off a little slow, once it gets going it kept me engaged and pushing forward. The trebhums might be too cute for their own good but it’s nice to see how they solve puzzles via mutations while navigating their cylinder-threatened planet.
  • COGconnected

    Ricky Knight · Oct 05, 2021

    9.0
    It’s a boon that the gameplay holds up as well and if you ever find it too challenging, it’s easy to turn down various settings to let you sit back and immerse yourself in something you won’t be able to easily describe to your friends. And the longer you play you’ll wonder why more games aren’t this creative in all aspects. I really enjoyed my time guiding my flock of Trebhum from danger to salvation. And I hope you will too. Just remember to roll like you didn’t know you could.
  • PC Gamer

    Edwin Evans-Thirlwell · Oct 01, 2021

    7.0
    It feels more like the game is succumbing to genre conventions than posing such a challenge. While an often-visionary piece of work, The Eternal Cylinder is a few mutations short of brilliance.

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