3.5/5 ★ – geekreate's review of Sable.

If you like games like Outer Wilds & if your favorite parts of Breath of the Wild were the open world puzzles, shrines, and discovering secrets, this is the game for you. PROS: • (as of writing) it's on Xbox Game Pass* • neat art style • intriguing writing and world building • outfit & bike customization • large, open world to explore • Secrets of the Past/Ancient Civilization story that hooks me • minimal HUD • fast travel system available to make the vast distances easy to get around in CONS: • as nice as the art style is, it occasionally interferes with visibility in the game • controls can be clunky in many places to being outright infuriating in a select few instances • open world can feel empty/too large despite many biomes within different regions Overall, I'd recommend this game to fans of exploration-puzzle lovers with GamePass*. Can't hurt to give it a shot, at least. Though if someone found themselves putting it down after said shot, I wouldn't blame them either. *update (Oct 9, 2022): Sable is marked as "leaving soon" on GamePass. That statement of the review will be no longer applicable soon.