Valleys Between Little Lost Fox Nurture a thriving, beautiful world by creating life, developing communities and discovering the quiet mysteries of the … TouchArcade Rating: $2.99 Buy Now Watch Media DetailsNurture a thriving, beautiful world by creating life, developing communities and discovering the quiet mysteries of the valley. *Best Feel Good Game - 15th International Mobile Gaming Awards 2019* *Nominated for Best Meaningful Play - 15th International Mobile Gaming Awards 2019* *Nominated for Best Indie Game - TapTap Game Awards 2018* *Overall Outstanding - Play by Play 2017* *Excellence in Design - Play by Play 2017* *Audience Choice - Play by Play 2017* "A striking puzzler... Undoubtedly one to watch. " - Pocket Gamer "A darn near impossible game to put down" - Touch Arcade "It’s awash in rich colors and filled with sweeping mountains and lush forests" - Venture Beat Features: • Grow a thriving, healthy world. Discover the endless challenges within the valley and find the elusive balance needed to sustain it. • Swipe up and down to shape the land at your fingertips. Designed with intuitive controls to be easy to pick up and play. • Relax and play at your own pace to craft your perfect world. • Develop your skills with handcrafted goals, and unlock animals to populate your world. • Each day is a new challenge as you play through the seasons and weather, including rain, snow, fog and more. • Original music and handcrafted audio reacts to your manipulation of the world to create an immersive soundscape. Best experienced with headphones. Valleys Between has no ads or in-app purchases. Purchase once, grow your valley forever. Information Seller:Little Lost Fox Genre:Puzzle, Strategy Release:Aug 30, 2018 Updated:Mar 05, 2020 Version:1.3.4 Size:182.6 MB TouchArcade Rating: User Rating:Unrated Your Rating:unrated Compatibility:HD Universal StratAll Well-Known Member Dec 24, 2009 160 17 18 #2 StratAll, Aug 30, 2018 Worldwide release Rocksaint Well-Known Member Nov 29, 2013 604 298 63 #3 Rocksaint, Aug 30, 2018 Bleeding money with all the awesome iOS games this month. Ijipop likes this. dukat111 Well-Known Member Mar 23, 2010 514 94 28 #4 dukat111, Aug 30, 2018 Can anyone with an iPad confirm whether the game formats to landscape mode? orangecan Well-Known Member Aug 9, 2011 1,997 145 63 #5 orangecan, Aug 30, 2018 I do fancy this but I’ve bought so many games recently and I just didn’t really click with the latest hyped/much loved puzzlers I bought (summit way and Evergarden) so I’m on the fence till I’ve seen more feedback. dukat111 Well-Known Member Mar 23, 2010 514 94 28 #6 dukat111, Aug 30, 2018 I actually bought Evergarden thinking it was this game and was wondering why I never saw any towns/cities appear in the hex until I saw this launched today. Rocksaint Well-Known Member Nov 29, 2013 604 298 63 #7 Rocksaint, Aug 30, 2018 Hehe. Happens when there are so many exciting releases so close to each other. That too of similar genres. Easy to get them mixed up. Anyway, picked this one up. Seems nice. Looks good. Quest based progression. I just had two feedback:- 1. Game resets your current run if you kill the game or return to Main Menu. (I feel it shouldn’t) 2. If you have completed any quests during your run and force ended it before losing all hearts, when you return to the game, the in-progress quests are replaced by new ones. (Probably because you completed the previous ones) Still, it’s kinda confusing I would say. Either an in-game toaster that appears as soon as you complete a quest or my 1st suggestion which would solve this problem as well. Overall, great game. Keep up the good work guys. And congrats on the release. vectorarchitekt Well-Known Member Dec 29, 2013 2,481 171 63 #8 vectorarchitekt, Aug 31, 2018 So what do you actually do? Rocksaint Well-Known Member Nov 29, 2013 604 298 63 #9 Rocksaint, Aug 31, 2018 Build up a forest/village to complete quests. There are hazards that appear randomly which you need to deal with either with water or your animal. You get currency to unlock new new animals and also there are 3 classes of animals with stats that can be upgraded. I would say it has good depth for a puzzle game. Looks gorgeous. And runs well as well. StratAll Well-Known Member Dec 24, 2009 160 17 18 #10 StratAll, Aug 31, 2018 I tried it on an iPad Air and it does not rotate to landscape. Portrait only. StratAll Well-Known Member Dec 24, 2009 160 17 18 #11 StratAll, Aug 31, 2018 A lot of the game and atmosphere rides on the exploration and finding out things for yourself. There's an Alto Odyssey like level system with 3 goals that do give you tips on what is possible. I'll describe gameplay in a spoiler section for those who want to know more. Spoiler You start on a grid of heaxgons where you basically have 2 actions : * raise one hexagon * scroll an entire column of hexagons one position up You have 3 hearts that count as your 'lives' and your score is measured in 'years'. Hexagons are empty or contain a variety of objects : * obstacles like fire, a monument, a factory,... that need to be dealt with or you lose hearts * landscape objects that are (for the moment, I'm up to level 4) created by combing groups * an animal that walks freely across your world moving from hexagon to hexagon You build your world by raising empty hexagons. This creates a lake in the hexagon you raise and grassland in all heaxgons around it. If you raise a grassland it becomes a tree. Groups of 2 to 5 trees can be raised to create a forest. This pulls the trees together to one hex and leaves the others to be reused or they get a flower grassland. Flower grasslands can contain wisps. They should be collected by your animal. Wisps can be used in between games to upgrade your animal in speed, shorter sleep time or respawn rate or unlock new animals. 2 forests can be combined in a town 2 towns become a city. The game elements comes from the fact that when you combine to forests or up, the world shifts one row down. The upper row becomes inaccessible and the lower row contains 2 to 5 new hexes, either empty or with obstacles on them. I did not get this at first from the tutorial, but making 2 tree forest only gives you 2 hexes in a new row, making 5 tree forest gives you a wider playfield of 5 new hexes. So build big forests to keep your options open. By shifting the world you can get your animal stuck behind trees or water and lose it at the top. It then respawns in a hex below, but after 5 to 8 turns, leaving you incapable of dealing with certain obstacles. There is no doubt more lurking behind level 4... dukat111 likes this. dukat111 Well-Known Member Mar 23, 2010 514 94 28 #12 dukat111, Aug 31, 2018 Thanks for the explanation, I was having a hard time figuring out the mechanics. Any idea why the animal seems to go to sleep if you swipe up on it? Why would you want it to sleep? StratAll Well-Known Member Dec 24, 2009 160 17 18 #13 StratAll, Aug 31, 2018 Swiping up on your animal handles an obstacle. It then goes to sleep tired... Ijipop Well-Known Member Jul 25, 2012 554 256 63 #14 Ijipop, Aug 31, 2018 I’m kinda stuck on lvl 7. Any help would be appreciated! It says (rough translation) « Restore 10 terrain ends with an animal?!? » Any idea? Thx Amazing game by the way! StratAll Well-Known Member Dec 24, 2009 160 17 18 #15 StratAll, Aug 31, 2018 Yeah, don't know what to do here either. Clearly handling obstacles does not count as restoring land... Ijipop likes this. Francis Stephens New Member Aug 31, 2018 4 4 3 Male #16 Francis Stephens, Aug 31, 2018 Hey, if you unlock a medium animal they have the ability to restore missing land the same way houses & villages do. Glad you're enjoying it ^_^ Ijipop, StratAll and raravan like this. StratAll Well-Known Member Dec 24, 2009 160 17 18 #17 StratAll, Sep 1, 2018 Thanks for the tip! Maybe this could be mentioned as a tip or popup on the quest description for the people who start out loyally leveling up their fox. djstout Well-Known Member Jul 21, 2011 2,672 97 48 Sportscaster & football (soccer) coach Taiwan & Japan #18 djstout, Sep 2, 2018 Great game but so confusing, I think I’ll have to do the tutorial once again. slewis7 Well-Known Member Apr 6, 2011 3,775 41 48 Male Retired! Houston, TX #19 slewis7, Sep 2, 2018 Like djstout, I am finding the game to be confusing as well. I have gone through the tutorial serval times already and will do so again before I give up on it, given the number of folks who are praising it. Francis Stephens New Member Aug 31, 2018 4 4 3 Male #20 Francis Stephens, Sep 2, 2018 Hey slewis, I'm a dev working on Valleys Between. What is it that you are finding confusing? We are always on the lookout for helpful feedback so anything you could provide us with would be good. (You must log in or sign up to post here.) 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I do fancy this but I’ve bought so many games recently and I just didn’t really click with the latest hyped/much loved puzzlers I bought (summit way and Evergarden) so I’m on the fence till I’ve seen more feedback.
I actually bought Evergarden thinking it was this game and was wondering why I never saw any towns/cities appear in the hex until I saw this launched today.
Hehe. Happens when there are so many exciting releases so close to each other. That too of similar genres. Easy to get them mixed up. Anyway, picked this one up. Seems nice. Looks good. Quest based progression. I just had two feedback:- 1. Game resets your current run if you kill the game or return to Main Menu. (I feel it shouldn’t) 2. If you have completed any quests during your run and force ended it before losing all hearts, when you return to the game, the in-progress quests are replaced by new ones. (Probably because you completed the previous ones) Still, it’s kinda confusing I would say. Either an in-game toaster that appears as soon as you complete a quest or my 1st suggestion which would solve this problem as well. Overall, great game. Keep up the good work guys. And congrats on the release.
Build up a forest/village to complete quests. There are hazards that appear randomly which you need to deal with either with water or your animal. You get currency to unlock new new animals and also there are 3 classes of animals with stats that can be upgraded. I would say it has good depth for a puzzle game. Looks gorgeous. And runs well as well.
A lot of the game and atmosphere rides on the exploration and finding out things for yourself. There's an Alto Odyssey like level system with 3 goals that do give you tips on what is possible. I'll describe gameplay in a spoiler section for those who want to know more. Spoiler You start on a grid of heaxgons where you basically have 2 actions : * raise one hexagon * scroll an entire column of hexagons one position up You have 3 hearts that count as your 'lives' and your score is measured in 'years'. Hexagons are empty or contain a variety of objects : * obstacles like fire, a monument, a factory,... that need to be dealt with or you lose hearts * landscape objects that are (for the moment, I'm up to level 4) created by combing groups * an animal that walks freely across your world moving from hexagon to hexagon You build your world by raising empty hexagons. This creates a lake in the hexagon you raise and grassland in all heaxgons around it. If you raise a grassland it becomes a tree. Groups of 2 to 5 trees can be raised to create a forest. This pulls the trees together to one hex and leaves the others to be reused or they get a flower grassland. Flower grasslands can contain wisps. They should be collected by your animal. Wisps can be used in between games to upgrade your animal in speed, shorter sleep time or respawn rate or unlock new animals. 2 forests can be combined in a town 2 towns become a city. The game elements comes from the fact that when you combine to forests or up, the world shifts one row down. The upper row becomes inaccessible and the lower row contains 2 to 5 new hexes, either empty or with obstacles on them. I did not get this at first from the tutorial, but making 2 tree forest only gives you 2 hexes in a new row, making 5 tree forest gives you a wider playfield of 5 new hexes. So build big forests to keep your options open. By shifting the world you can get your animal stuck behind trees or water and lose it at the top. It then respawns in a hex below, but after 5 to 8 turns, leaving you incapable of dealing with certain obstacles. There is no doubt more lurking behind level 4...
Thanks for the explanation, I was having a hard time figuring out the mechanics. Any idea why the animal seems to go to sleep if you swipe up on it? Why would you want it to sleep?
I’m kinda stuck on lvl 7. Any help would be appreciated! It says (rough translation) « Restore 10 terrain ends with an animal?!? » Any idea? Thx Amazing game by the way!
Yeah, don't know what to do here either. Clearly handling obstacles does not count as restoring land...
Hey, if you unlock a medium animal they have the ability to restore missing land the same way houses & villages do. Glad you're enjoying it ^_^
Thanks for the tip! Maybe this could be mentioned as a tip or popup on the quest description for the people who start out loyally leveling up their fox.
Like djstout, I am finding the game to be confusing as well. I have gone through the tutorial serval times already and will do so again before I give up on it, given the number of folks who are praising it.
Hey slewis, I'm a dev working on Valleys Between. What is it that you are finding confusing? We are always on the lookout for helpful feedback so anything you could provide us with would be good.
