If anyone’s interested, I’m sharing a short video https://youtu.be/0Nqbw77rMDg?is=jA0337rJnOyPKuRg on the main features and some more advanced stuff, kept nice and simple. It could definitely be improved, I know... but I’d heard about all the 'drama' surrounding this. Turns out, it's really not the case
In italian language but...subtitles in ENG and voice over (orrible) of YouTube ai
Here https://youtu.be/3vPzZVhuqMc?is=9dEgUozOieDMcKU1 is the link to the video where I talk about it, but I’ve included the transcript below for those who prefer reading! :)
My best game on Meta Quest of this 2026, for the moment, is a work made by a single person over 3 years of work and it’s called Among Giants? Not the person, eh... the game. And I’m not talking about something perfect, far from it, but a product with a strong identity, great ideas, a sense of scale that is out of the ordinary, even though it manages to mix everything in a very personal way. The inspirations for this game are obvious: Shadow of the Colossus, Zelda, Windlands. From Shadow, it takes the idea of the colossi, the horse, the narrative mystery, and the general scale. From the latest Zeldas, it takes the taste for adventure and the total exploration of environments through only the visual references given by the geography of the places you will cross. From Windlands, it takes the grappling hook and the progressive importance that this can have in general locomotion and the natural growth of our skills as a player. In simple terms: the better you get, the more paths open up in front of you, allowing for things you never would have imagined at the beginning of our journey. This, however, without having to resort to various upgrades, but based only on what the game itself teaches you as you go. But let’s try to explain the purpose of it all and its progression. As soon as it starts, we are taken to the main screen: a semi-desert landscape dotted with wide mountains, skeletons of gigantic animals, and metal structures here and there, like vestiges of an ancient civilization that seems dead. We observe just a few distant eagles in the sky, and immediately our hearing is captured by an explosion. From the sky descends a sort of meteor that crashes to the ground. The game menu appears and we click on 'Awake'. And so it is. That wasn’t a meteor but a metal pod, a small sort of spaceship, and we were inside. After a few seconds of wonder, we pick up a small robotic bot, charge its battery inside a specific machine, and the fluttering bot greets us, after which it gives us an order. An order-advice: 'follow the star'. And from here on, we are alone. In 15 minutes of contextual and invisible tutorial, everything we need to know about the mechanics is explained. The title of the game stands gigantic in the sky and we are free to do whatever we want, besides naturally following the star shining in the sky. In our journey, we will take down gigantic mechanical colossi, explore a huge map divided into four main natural biomes, hack old computers to slowly reveal an unknown language through which the past narrative of the game will be suggested to us, and we will fight, explore ancient ruins, climb gigantic trees and towers, swim in the depths of some lakes, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. At the end of the journey, having defeated the final boss, the story will reveal its secrets while still maintaining a certain aura of mystery that contributes significantly to the charm of the game—provided that we have hacked enough terminals and therefore understood enough of that language with which the game itself communicates with us. It is a special journey, truly special, where the graphics are simple but the physics are omnipresent, as is the sense of scale. And although I can understand that such a minimal aesthetic approach might not be for everyone, I assure you that every now and then you will gape at some daring artistic choice or even just at certain lighting effects resulting from the natural dynamic weather changes and the day-night cycle that have been implemented in the game. It is a somewhat crazy title, very ambitious, and certainly not perfect. So let’s do it, come on: let’s list these defects. Every now and then, there won’t be the general polish we would like; sometimes you’ll get stuck in some rocks due to a bug, or maybe the horse you just summoned with your horn will end up straight down a ravine. But these are small things I don't care about. The perhaps more realistic defect of it all is a less-than-immaculate balance of risk and reward related to more secondary exploration. There are, for example, several abandoned structures around, but after seeing two or three, you’ve seen them all, and there isn’t a huge reward for exploring them. Sometimes the game is a bit easy, sometimes it’s hard. Sometimes the discovery of certain stamina upgrades—which is a very important thing in the game's economy—is made truly complex by the sheer size of the map itself. And then... and then that’s it. Will you like this game? Well, it depends on what type of player you are. If you go look at the reviews on the store, for example, you can see all the love this adventure has sparked in those looking precisely for the escapism that only VR can promise. Conversely, if you are a bit colder as a player and tied to a more performance-oriented vision, you might not come to appreciate and understand the game, put off by an initial impact with this aesthetic style and maybe the occasional bad luck of a stray bug. I recommend it. There is a lot of love here, there is a lot of virtual reality in its best sense. Try it, at most you have two hours to get a refund. I finished it in 12 hours and I didn’t complete the whole map, I didn’t find all the upgrades. It’s just that, at the time I played it, pre-patch, the game prevented you from being able to resume exploration once you discovered the final boss. Instead, now the developer, patch after patch, is improving certain balances anyway, and now you will be told very clearly: 'we are arriving at the final boss, do you want to explore more? Do it now.' So there will be no more excuses, unknown friend. There isn’t much more to say other than: go in first person and discover this world for yourself.
Here https://youtu.be/3vPzZVhuqMc?is=9dEgUozOieDMcKU1 is the link to the video where I talk about it, but I’ve included the transcript below for those who prefer reading! :)
My best game on Meta Quest of this 2026, for the moment, is a work made by a single person over 3 years of work and it’s called Among Giants? Not the person, eh... the game. And I’m not talking about something perfect, far from it, but a product with a strong identity, great ideas, a sense of scale that is out of the ordinary, even though it manages to mix everything in a very personal way. The inspirations for this game are obvious: Shadow of the Colossus, Zelda, Windlands. From Shadow, it takes the idea of the colossi, the horse, the narrative mystery, and the general scale. From the latest Zeldas, it takes the taste for adventure and the total exploration of environments through only the visual references given by the geography of the places you will cross. From Windlands, it takes the grappling hook and the progressive importance that this can have in general locomotion and the natural growth of our skills as a player. In simple terms: the better you get, the more paths open up in front of you, allowing for things you never would have imagined at the beginning of our journey. This, however, without having to resort to various upgrades, but based only on what the game itself teaches you as you go. But let’s try to explain the purpose of it all and its progression. As soon as it starts, we are taken to the main screen: a semi-desert landscape dotted with wide mountains, skeletons of gigantic animals, and metal structures here and there, like vestiges of an ancient civilization that seems dead. We observe just a few distant eagles in the sky, and immediately our hearing is captured by an explosion. From the sky descends a sort of meteor that crashes to the ground. The game menu appears and we click on 'Awake'. And so it is. That wasn’t a meteor but a metal pod, a small sort of spaceship, and we were inside. After a few seconds of wonder, we pick up a small robotic bot, charge its battery inside a specific machine, and the fluttering bot greets us, after which it gives us an order. An order-advice: 'follow the star'. And from here on, we are alone. In 15 minutes of contextual and invisible tutorial, everything we need to know about the mechanics is explained. The title of the game stands gigantic in the sky and we are free to do whatever we want, besides naturally following the star shining in the sky. In our journey, we will take down gigantic mechanical colossi, explore a huge map divided into four main natural biomes, hack old computers to slowly reveal an unknown language through which the past narrative of the game will be suggested to us, and we will fight, explore ancient ruins, climb gigantic trees and towers, swim in the depths of some lakes, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. At the end of the journey, having defeated the final boss, the story will reveal its secrets while still maintaining a certain aura of mystery that contributes significantly to the charm of the game—provided that we have hacked enough terminals and therefore understood enough of that language with which the game itself communicates with us. It is a special journey, truly special, where the graphics are simple but the physics are omnipresent, as is the sense of scale. And although I can understand that such a minimal aesthetic approach might not be for everyone, I assure you that every now and then you will gape at some daring artistic choice or even just at certain lighting effects resulting from the natural dynamic weather changes and the day-night cycle that have been implemented in the game. It is a somewhat crazy title, very ambitious, and certainly not perfect. So let’s do it, come on: let’s list these defects. Every now and then, there won’t be the general polish we would like; sometimes you’ll get stuck in some rocks due to a bug, or maybe the horse you just summoned with your horn will end up straight down a ravine. But these are small things I don't care about. The perhaps more realistic defect of it all is a less-than-immaculate balance of risk and reward related to more secondary exploration. There are, for example, several abandoned structures around, but after seeing two or three, you’ve seen them all, and there isn’t a huge reward for exploring them. Sometimes the game is a bit easy, sometimes it’s hard. Sometimes the discovery of certain stamina upgrades—which is a very important thing in the game's economy—is made truly complex by the sheer size of the map itself. And then... and then that’s it. Will you like this game? Well, it depends on what type of player you are. If you go look at the reviews on the store, for example, you can see all the love this adventure has sparked in those looking precisely for the escapism that only VR can promise. Conversely, if you are a bit colder as a player and tied to a more performance-oriented vision, you might not come to appreciate and understand the game, put off by an initial impact with this aesthetic style and maybe the occasional bad luck of a stray bug. I recommend it. There is a lot of love here, there is a lot of virtual reality in its best sense. Try it, at most you have two hours to get a refund. I finished it in 12 hours and I didn’t complete the whole map, I didn’t find all the upgrades. It’s just that, at the time I played it, pre-patch, the game prevented you from being able to resume exploration once you discovered the final boss. Instead, now the developer, patch after patch, is improving certain balances anyway, and now you will be told very clearly: 'we are arriving at the final boss, do you want to explore more? Do it now.' So there will be no more excuses, unknown friend. There isn’t much more to say other than: go in first person and discover this world for yourself.
Here https://youtu.be/3vPzZVhuqMc?is=9dEgUozOieDMcKU1 is the link to the video where I talk about it, but I’ve included the transcript below for those who prefer reading! :)
My best game on Meta Quest of this 2026, for the moment, is a work made by a single person over 3 years of work and it’s called Among Giants? Not the person, eh... the game. And I’m not talking about something perfect, far from it, but a product with a strong identity, great ideas, a sense of scale that is out of the ordinary, even though it manages to mix everything in a very personal way. The inspirations for this game are obvious: Shadow of the Colossus, Zelda, Windlands. From Shadow, it takes the idea of the colossi, the horse, the narrative mystery, and the general scale. From the latest Zeldas, it takes the taste for adventure and the total exploration of environments through only the visual references given by the geography of the places you will cross. From Windlands, it takes the grappling hook and the progressive importance that this can have in general locomotion and the natural growth of our skills as a player. In simple terms: the better you get, the more paths open up in front of you, allowing for things you never would have imagined at the beginning of our journey. This, however, without having to resort to various upgrades, but based only on what the game itself teaches you as you go. But let’s try to explain the purpose of it all and its progression. As soon as it starts, we are taken to the main screen: a semi-desert landscape dotted with wide mountains, skeletons of gigantic animals, and metal structures here and there, like vestiges of an ancient civilization that seems dead. We observe just a few distant eagles in the sky, and immediately our hearing is captured by an explosion. From the sky descends a sort of meteor that crashes to the ground. The game menu appears and we click on 'Awake'. And so it is. That wasn’t a meteor but a metal pod, a small sort of spaceship, and we were inside. After a few seconds of wonder, we pick up a small robotic bot, charge its battery inside a specific machine, and the fluttering bot greets us, after which it gives us an order. An order-advice: 'follow the star'. And from here on, we are alone. In 15 minutes of contextual and invisible tutorial, everything we need to know about the mechanics is explained. The title of the game stands gigantic in the sky and we are free to do whatever we want, besides naturally following the star shining in the sky. In our journey, we will take down gigantic mechanical colossi, explore a huge map divided into four main natural biomes, hack old computers to slowly reveal an unknown language through which the past narrative of the game will be suggested to us, and we will fight, explore ancient ruins, climb gigantic trees and towers, swim in the depths of some lakes, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. At the end of the journey, having defeated the final boss, the story will reveal its secrets while still maintaining a certain aura of mystery that contributes significantly to the charm of the game—provided that we have hacked enough terminals and therefore understood enough of that language with which the game itself communicates with us. It is a special journey, truly special, where the graphics are simple but the physics are omnipresent, as is the sense of scale. And although I can understand that such a minimal aesthetic approach might not be for everyone, I assure you that every now and then you will gape at some daring artistic choice or even just at certain lighting effects resulting from the natural dynamic weather changes and the day-night cycle that have been implemented in the game. It is a somewhat crazy title, very ambitious, and certainly not perfect. So let’s do it, come on: let’s list these defects. Every now and then, there won’t be the general polish we would like; sometimes you’ll get stuck in some rocks due to a bug, or maybe the horse you just summoned with your horn will end up straight down a ravine. But these are small things I don't care about. The perhaps more realistic defect of it all is a less-than-immaculate balance of risk and reward related to more secondary exploration. There are, for example, several abandoned structures around, but after seeing two or three, you’ve seen them all, and there isn’t a huge reward for exploring them. Sometimes the game is a bit easy, sometimes it’s hard. Sometimes the discovery of certain stamina upgrades—which is a very important thing in the game's economy—is made truly complex by the sheer size of the map itself. And then... and then that’s it. Will you like this game? Well, it depends on what type of player you are. If you go look at the reviews on the store, for example, you can see all the love this adventure has sparked in those looking precisely for the escapism that only VR can promise. Conversely, if you are a bit colder as a player and tied to a more performance-oriented vision, you might not come to appreciate and understand the game, put off by an initial impact with this aesthetic style and maybe the occasional bad luck of a stray bug. I recommend it. There is a lot of love here, there is a lot of virtual reality in its best sense. Try it, at most you have two hours to get a refund. I finished it in 12 hours and I didn’t complete the whole map, I didn’t find all the upgrades. It’s just that, at the time I played it, pre-patch, the game prevented you from being able to resume exploration once you discovered the final boss. Instead, now the developer, patch after patch, is improving certain balances anyway, and now you will be told very clearly: 'we are arriving at the final boss, do you want to explore more? Do it now.' So there will be no more excuses, unknown friend. There isn’t much more to say other than: go in first person and discover this world for yourself.