100 PCWorld JANUARY 2020REVIEWS GOOGLE STADIA
it this week because it didn’t matter how well
Stadia performed.
It’s basically a block-moving puzzler,
locked to a grid, with a catchy soundtrack.
Playing it local on my PC or on my phone via
Stadia provided precisely the same
experience. More of this, please.
Gylt: Lastly, the lone Stadia exclusive. I
like Tequila Works. I like Gylt. From what I
played, it seemed like a brave attempt to
tackle bullying and other weighty themes
within the confines of a stealth game.
But I cannot imagine who decided
to make the lone Google Stadia
exclusive a game that takes place almost
exclusively in the dark (see above).
Blotchy shadows almost completely ruin
the experience, even on the
Chromecast where I had the most luck
avoiding compression artifacts. I want
to play it, but not like this.DATA C A PS
Before we end, a word
on data caps. That’s the
other part that gives me
pause about Stadia.
Many people in America,
myself included, have a
1TB cap on our monthly
internet. Go over that
twice in a year, you get a
warning. Go over it
again, and Comcast at
least forces you to pay an
extra $50 a month on top of your standard
internet bill.
It’s a problem even for standard game
downloads nowadays. Red Dead Redemption
II came in around 150GB, I think. That’s huge,
and publishers should absolutely be lobbying
against these punitive measures by internet
providers.Gylt takes place almost exclusively in the dark.