The Eternal Cylinder
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…
The Eternal Cylinder is an adventure developed by ACE Team, released 30 September 2021 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
What The Eternal Cylinder is
The Eternal Cylinder is an adventure game developed by ACE Team and released in 2021. It was published by Good Shepherd Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Your Trebhums begin at the bottom of the natural food chain but can mutate and evolve with new physical attributes and abilities by eating a variety of flora and fauna. Discover and adapt dozens of mutations, including new traversal skills like flying and swimming to reach new areas, and new senses to help overcome puzzles, challenges and dangers. Your many Trebhums can each have different mutations, and new mutations don’t replace ones you already have, letting you stack ability sets in dynamic ways. Each mutation will also change the physical look of a Trebhum and stacking these will generate near countless surprising new creature designs which players will be able to organically discover…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, open world and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Eternal Cylinder holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
The Eternal Cylinder launched on 30 September 2021, within three weeks of Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Far Cry 6 and Inscryption. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Far Cry 6, Inscryption.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Eternal Cylinder yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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