Never Alone Review – Gamer Headlines

Upper One Games’ first project speaks directly to the legends and culture central to its Iñupiat owners and programmers with a story pieced together from the oral tradition of the Iñupiat elders. Combined with engaging platforming and co-operative gameplay, Never Alone is not only a fun game, but the nostalgia it induces in even a cultural outsider constitutes it as a work of art. The story of the game is foreign, but at the same time universal, and by combining oral storytelling with the interactivity of gaming, manages to completely absorb the player into its world.

While the gameplay is not perfect, the sheer scope and majesty of this project captures the imagination, and acts as a poignant commentary on how games can be used to empower, inform, as well as entertain.