When comparing Finding Paradise vs Crashlands, the Slant community recommends Crashlands for most people. In the question“What are the best games on Steam with a rich story?” Crashlands is ranked 36th while Finding Paradise is ranked 56th. The most important reason people chose Crashlands is:
For just the medium difficulty setting there is hours upon hours of content, and that's even if you skip all the side quests and just focus on the main story. Plus there are two harder difficulties to try and in the near future a tool will come out which will let you build your own adventures as well as play other people's.
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Pros
Pro Intriguing concept of altering memories
The doctors physically manifest themselves in their patient's head, traversing his mind like traditional levels in a video game. In Finding Paradise, the concept of altering memories is a great thought experiment of how someone's life could change entirely if they remembered things differently.
Pro Excellent writing
The game's writing handles themes of loss and death in an accessible and thoughtful way, giving the player plenty to think about long after the story concludes. There's a range of emotions, humor and philosophical musing that feels unique and true to the story. Despite the plot's focus on loss and death, the doctors' journey offers hope to the dying Colin in ways that resonate with players from all walks of life.
Pro Emotional story
With the premise of a dying man, Colin Reeds, who has one final wish to see fulfilled before he passes on, Finding Paradise is a moving tale of two doctors, Eva Rosalene and Neil Watts, who travel through Colin's reconstructed memories to seemingly make the impossible possible. The doctors travel back through time and must press forward through Colin's memories, learning about his complicated yet compelling life along the way, solving puzzles along the way as they ultimately accept the inevitability of their patient's worsening condition.
Pro Wonderful soundtrack
Featuring a range of measured, thoughtful guitar pieces to plucky, magical piano tracks that inspire a sense of intrigue and adventure, Finding Paradise has an incredibly thematic soundtrack that hits all the right notes. There's a unifying sound across the tracks that gives a sense of wonder and mystery, blending well with the doctors' journey through Colin's intricate memories.
Pro Hours of content just in the main quest alone gives the player plenty to do
For just the medium difficulty setting there is hours upon hours of content, and that's even if you skip all the side quests and just focus on the main story. Plus there are two harder difficulties to try and in the near future a tool will come out which will let you build your own adventures as well as play other people's.
Pro Pleasing graphics that show off a well designed and polished game
The graphics look nice and you can tell time has been put into designing them. While not the most flashy, there is a certain style to the whole game that makes for a very cohesive experience.
Pro Pick up from your last save, no matter the device you are using, thanks to the built in cloud saving
Playable on Android, iOS and PC you're able to transfer the one game between multiple devices (on same or different operating systems) and take it with you anywhere you go. with a Butterscotch ID (the devs self implemented cloud save system).
Pro Excellent progression system where you never feel like you are grinding too much
Progression never feels sluggish or rushed, everything has a good pace to it from the farming of materials and grinding out the various components for the tons of items, to the incredibly unique combat/interaction system, it all blends well into a long gaming experience.
Pro Hundreds items to craft in a deep and varied crafting system that will keep the user busy for hours and hours
There are over 500 items that can be crafted in the game, giving the player quite a lot to experiment with and explore when it comes to crafting items.
Pro Great soundtrack that suits the humor and setting of the game quite well
A great mix of chill and energized music, that fits the setting of the game at all times. A pleasure to listen to on its own as well.
Pro Multiple game modes
Once you've finished the basic mode there's also a challenging and insane mode for replayability.
Pro Good writing
You don't need to read everything to enjoy the game but the writing is very good and really adds to the enjoyment.
Pro Lots of entertaining pop-culture references
Cons
Con Gameplay elements are sparse
For those hoping for a bit more gameplay to go along with the story, you're going to be disappointed. Finding Paradise is by and large a narrative-heavy visual novel that expects more reading than puzzle-solving.
Con Cloud saves not through Google services
An extra account will need to be used in order to take advantage of the cloud saving as it does not work with Googles solution to cloud saves. While this does allow for the cloud saves to work cross platform, people may not want to take the extra step to make a new account with Butterscotch Shenanigans.