Review: A Highland Song (Switch) – A Beautiful Climb That Doesn’t Quite Reach Inkle’s Peak

Take the high road AND the low road.

Scotland. The final frontier. At least, as far as games go. Despite many games being made in and about the glorious north, very few actually represent its natural wonder without also featuring an embarrassing stereotype of haggis-eating, ginger-bearded, tartan-clad men, and/or clobbering the English (although we do deserve that last one).

A Highland Song, the latest offering from the narrative game wizards at Inkle, steps lightly in to right this wrong. Its mountains and its music flow like honey, showing a side of the highlands that most of us rarely get to see without taking a long train up north. And you, as the teen runaway Moira, are tasked with exploring this daunting mountain range with one goal: to get to the sea.

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