Laya's Horizon

Laya's Horizon

By Netflix, Inc.

  • Category: Games
  • Release Date: 2023-05-02
  • Current Version: 1.7
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 512.33 MB
  • Developer: Netflix, Inc.
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 15.0
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 134 Ratings

Description

Available exclusively for Netflix members. “It’s one of the best games to hit Netflix’s fledgling gaming service to date.” — The Verge “An engaging, cozy and responsive experience” — Engadget “It’s as close to perfect as a mobile game gets” — Esquire “A truly magical experience” — TouchArcade Master the art of flying. Dive off mountains, weave across forests and glide over rivers to unlock new abilities as you explore a vast, peaceful world. Use the ancient power of the Windfolk's enchanted capes to hone your skills, take on challenges and fly through obstacle courses that will make your heart soar. Explore an expansive island in this open-world adventure inspired by wingsuit flying. Features: • Flying at your fingertips: Inspired by the real-world sport of wingsuit flying, the position of Laya's arms change the shape of her cape just like a bird's wings. Move your thumbs independently or together to steer, boost, rise and dive using intuitive controls. • Endless exploration: Cut through the air in high-speed races and try not to crash as you carefully maneuver through challenging obstacle courses. If you're in the mood for a relaxing adventure, simply enjoy the beauty of the island and fly without a goal. • Complete challenges, upgrade your skills: This game is filled with more than 50 exciting missions from many characters, over 40 challenge levels and more than 100 collectables to keep you flying. Unlock capes and charms to help boost your abilities. • High risk, high reward: Power your flight by flying boldly. Fly close to everything — from hot air balloons to snowy slopes. This will allow you to absorb the island's energy and keep flying fast. If you feel a drop in energy, simply dip low and close to your environment to collect sparks and boost. • Find your own way to fly: Discover a unique set of flying abilities as you unlock enchanted capes and charms on your journey. Try out different equipment combinations to increase boost speeds, conserve energy and improve maneuverability. • Get lost in beautiful horizons: From the winding rivers of the Highlands to the towering rock formations of Stone Forest, each patch of terrain offers a distinct flying experience. Weave through narrow caves filled with ancient ruins, skim over massive waves, dodge raging geysers and so much more. • Meet interactive characters: An eclectic group of people, the Windfolk are as diverse as the land they live on, which makes meeting them as interesting as discovering the island itself. • Exclusive music and calming design: Original music and handcrafted audio welcome you into the world of the Windfolk. Adaptive audio matches the movement and intensity of your flying for a totally immersive experience. Enjoy an orchestral score that provides the perfect ambience to your flight and environment. • An improved gamepad experience: We’ve added gamepad support to most menus. Settings and full map control coming soon. - Created by Snowman.

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Reviews

  • Excellent work

    5
    By VoiceOfReality
    It’s excellent work, worthy successor to the Alto games.

  • Relaxing yet Challenging

    5
    By TRezendes
    This game brings all of the fun, relaxation, challenge, and beauty of Snowman’s Alto games into three dimensions. I love this game as a way to kill time and destress. It’s fun to play even when I’m not attempting to complete any challenges or achieve any goals. Just gliding around the island without any particular purpose is enjoyable. I’ve encountered a few minor bugs. I once finished a race in first place by .03 seconds and the challenge didn’t get marked complete. Another time I collected 18 smoke rings on a “Collect 20 to win” challenge, and it DID get marked complete. These are trivial, though, and rare. They don’t meaningfully detract from the game.

  • Soaring Masterpiece

    5
    By Stulo!
    This is an excellent open-world wingsuit game from the creators of Alto’s Adventure, who nailed the exhilaration of tearing down a slope at high speed, arms tucked close. Not only is the flying great, but the island is packed with plenty of beautiful biomes to explore and a variety of interesting challenges. The 5 minute average for a run down the mountain keeps the gameplay loop mobile friendly, but I find myself sinking hours into it anyways. Small criticisms aside (some minor jank with the touchscreen), I highly highly recommend this game.

  • Kind of janky and not all that impressive

    3
    By Geomz
    Based on all of the glowing reviews, I expected this game to be better than sliced toast with butter and jam. And honestly, I really hoped it would be. But upon playing it, for a while now, I’m left feeling mostly meh. Don’t get me wrong it has some value. And the gameplay is initially kind of fun. But… This game looks like a direct rip off of an oooold game called Glyder by gluGames. As a matter of fact this game was the first result when I recently went looking for another game like it, as it no longer works with a modern iOS. That game was really fun to play, with actual challenges and a point to playing, or to even just fly around for the pure joy of it. The ui was quite intuitive and provided a great deal of information without being intrusive or overbearing. The controls were simple and very natural, yet allowed for complex and exciting maneuvers that made the whole experience even more fun. The graphics were charming in their own way, only limited by the hardware and software of the time. The gameplay was complex without being complicated. In other words a gem. This game on the other hand is kind of a mess and completely uninspired. The ui is janky and not very reactive. The relationship between movement and what actually happens on the screen is more like an interactive movie and not so much a flying “game”. The “challenges” are little more than the same “milk runs” over and over and over again. The graphics are laughable at best being bland, neutered, and a 90s style polygonal hodgepodge. But they make up for that by having it be huge in size and demanding in resources, and it’s like, really? That’s what swinging Netflix kind of cash $$$ around gets you? Really? And this was on a new iPhone 15. God help you if you’re on a 13 or a 12. Overall the game play, beyond the initial hour or so, is dull, tedious, and bordering on annoying. The controls are not at all fun if you just “want to fly around” or to do any so-called missions, and end up being clumsy and weirdly unresponsive. The “missions” are mostly laughable and pointless and ridiculous, not to mention repetitive. There is near zero sense of discovery, although they try really hard to make it look like there is. And despite my having a genuine desire for a game like this, and while having no actual replacement, I’m deleting it because by now it’s as exciting as watching paint mold.

  • Love everything about the game but this !

    4
    By Jjjjjjjjhjhjhg
    Game is amazing from the graphics to activities to just the hours of entertainment , my only complaint is it seems to be a bug in the game - whenever you are in a race and you and the other races jump off to start you don’t have control over your character until 2-3 seconds after the race starts leading to you to have to pick up from dead last , not sure if this is just me or not but anyways here’s to hoping it gets fixed !

  • Sky children of the light copy?

    1
    By cookierattt
    I don’t know if this is just a new type of game style but this seems ether HEAVLY inspired by sky cotl or just a cheep attempt of copying sky. Anyways the controlls def take some getting used to but the cape and flying and “layas SKY” part def hints at another sky copy game. Ik sky isn’t really a popular game but COME ON?? NETFLIX CHILL

  • Soaring Into The Sunset

    5
    By Random Guy 999
    I’m honestly shocked that this is a mobile game. Mobile games are often known for their absurd in-app purchases, low-quality designs, and just general corporateness. Here we have a game that holds up not just as a mobile game, but as a game in general. There is a massive world to explore, with unique controls and characters with actual personality. You could try to complete all of the quests, collect sparks and do crazy stunts, gather a large photo album, or fill out the entire map. There is a ton of content to check out, and the fact that all you need to play is a Netflix subscription is shocking given the quality. Kudos to the devs for creating another great game. One issue: for some reason, the recent update causes the game to crash when you open your photo album. Is that just me?

  • Please fix the Bug in release 1.3

    5
    By User4726
    Game crashes when I try to access the new snapshot collection menu

  • Just bliss!

    5
    By cschanck
    Reminiscent of the classic, sadly gone game Glyder, this is just lovely. Fly around, do challenges or not, no stress.

  • You don’t need Nintendo Switch

    5
    By Kiri11Squid
    With such amazing games like this one! I play with a DualSense controller attached to my phone. It works really well. Graphics, gameplay, sound — everything is amazing. And the best part it’s included in Netflix subscription which I already have anyway! I wish more people discovered Netflix gaming, it’s great. There is some shader compilation stutter during the cutscenes, even on iPhone 14 Pro Max. The gameplay looks fine, though. Hopefully this is being fixed in future patches.

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