Will: Follow The Light Reviews
WILL: Follow the Light puts you in the thick of it by taking on raging storms out in the ocean to search far and wide, all for your missing son. Completing tasks and solving puzzles can be fun or tedious, but the gameplay of sailing treacherous seas helps turn a simple story into an epic adventure. WILL: Follow the Light isn’t just a video game; it’s an experience.
WILL: Follow the Light has a genuinely compelling core: the loneliness of open water, lighthouse routines, and a father's grief searching for his missing family. When it leans into its sailing mechanics and atmospheric coastal design, it gets close to something special. But uneven pacing, stiff controls, and a town full of lifeless interactions keep pulling you away from the emotional story it clearly wants to tell. There's a better game hidden beneath the surface. It just doesn't stay there long enough to matter.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Through all of its faults, Will: Follow the Light still has something to give by shining a light on father-son relationships through an intriguing and sometimes surreal story. Its strong voice cast (including Cissy Jones) aids its pluses, and each gives great performances, but it is hard to ignore its frustrations that let it down quite considerably.
Will: Follow the Light had a compelling premise that could have set it apart from the sea of walking simulators. In fact, the plot framework remains intriguing, but the execution falls short due to lackluster voice acting that lacks both emphasis and intent, failing to convey the urgency of the situation in which our protagonist finds himself. The puzzles also fail to engage, and when you’re not using a mouse and keyboard, they’re hampered by an ineffective control scheme. Will: Follow the Light remains a personal project by a small team grappling with an intriguing production, but it should be viewed as a starting point from which to build upon for Tomorrow Head’s future works.
Review in Italian | Read full review
WILL: Follow The Light delivers a visually striking and emotionally driven sailing adventure that shines brightest when it embraces the loneliness and danger of the open sea. Its lighthouse routines, weather systems, and immersive boating mechanics create a strong sense of place, while the narrative explores grief, family, and isolation with genuine ambition.
WILL: Follow the Light presented itself from the very first moment, displaying a bit of all these ambitions and attempting to inhabit that ideal space between the reflective and fascinating solitude of Firewatch and the haunting surrealism of What Remains of Edith Finch.
Review in Italian | Read full review
WILL: Follow The Light has definite problems with pace and accessibility, but it does manage to tell a tight story about family, loss and the burden of responsibility.
Will: Follow the Light is a slow, contemplative experience focused on emotional storytelling and realistic navigation systems. It’s a mix of sailing mechanics, environmental puzzles, and explorative gameplay woven into a story of family, loss, and introspection. Meanwhile, pacing issues, inconsistent puzzle clarity, and uneven character delivery hurt overall buy-in.
Will: Follow the Light is a frustrating experience because the foundation for something memorable is clearly there. Beneath the repetitive puzzle design, uneven writing, and technical frustrations lies a genuinely interesting premise supported by immersive sailing mechanics and strong atmospheric audio. There are moments where the game briefly captures the emotional and cinematic adventure it wants to be, but it struggles to sustain that momentum for long before falling back into its more exhausting habits. For some players, those stronger moments may still be enough to carry the journey through to the end. For others, the game’s shortcomings will likely overshadow the experience long before Will reaches the light.
While WILL: Follow the Light can very much look the part, it simply didn't hold up for me when it came to the actual gameplay and narrative. The story felt fragmented and poorly delivered, even though a late game twist and a heartfelt message about the time we have and the choices we make felt genuine.
WILL: Follow the Light, without the few negative hiccups I noted, is a 10 out of 10 game. But as it stands right now, the few nits that exist within the game pull away from that score slightly - but only slightly. That being said though, if these updates and needed fixes are made, I can easily see this being a can’t-miss game. The beautiful, yet heart-wrenching story, coupled with the intriguing puzzles and environment of the game itself make for an unforgettable digital experience.