Will: Follow The Light Reviews
Ultimately, Will: Follow the Light isn’t a game for everyone, but it is a title with a distinct voice of its own. It’s a journey through the cold, filled with loss yet still offering hope, all wrapped up in an impressive audiovisual experience. If you enjoy interactive films, particularly dramas, then this is definitely for you. If you need your daily dose of virtual violence, though, you’d be best off steering well clear of Will.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
Aside from its sailing mechanics and impressive story, the game can sometimes feel boring due to its pacing. Even though the gameplay is fun and mixed with puzzles, their frequency may not be enough to keep every player engaged throughout the experience.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
WILL: Follow The Light is not a clean hit, but I enjoyed it. It has a strong premise, beautiful locations, enjoyable sailing, and enough emotional ambition to make the journey worthwhile. It also has awkward story transitions, shallow puzzles, and themes that needed clearer focus. If you like slow narrative adventures and do not mind some rough edges, there is something here worth experiencing, especially on Series X.
WILL: Follow The Light is yet another walking simulator that offers an interesting mechanic of controlling a yacht and a dog sled. However, the authors completely failed in terms of the story and world exploration.
Review in Russian | Read full review
WILL: Follow the Light tells a simple story of a man trying to look for his son after a massive storm, and along the way, has to confront the mysteries of his own life. The intimate nature of the core premise is compelling enough to carry this walking simulator throughout its entire runtime.
WILL: Follow the Light offers a few glimmers of promise amidst its fog of missed potential, but they are too few and far between to recommend. Stiff delivery, rough writing and uneven puzzles all would have been better served by being thrown overboard so WILL could focus on its atmospheric sailing strengths. Instead, WILL is better left adrift at sea with only its lost promise to keep it company.
A strikingly moody adventure that knows exactly what it wants to feel like, but never fully works as either a game or a story in the way it needs to.
WILL: Follow the Light is a thoughtful and cinematic adventure built on varied gameplay, strong atmosphere and a personal story about this father, his relationships and the search for meaning in the aftermath of loss. Without spoiling the game, it is one that must be experienced without any prior expectations and with just a limited knowledge of the story. As to the gameplay, it mostly works but some of the glitches can shake you out of the immersion factor but if you enjoy those surreal walking type games, WILL: Follow the Light might be just for you.
Some games try to impress with huge open worlds, spectacular action and endless gameplay mechanics. WILL: Follow The Light consciously opts for a completely different approach: a quiet, narrative experience in which atmosphere and emotion are central. That may not make this game suitable for everyone, but it is precisely because of this that the adventure distinguishes itself from many other narrative games.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
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.