Sayonara Wild Hearts Reviews

Sayonara Wild Hearts is ranked in the 95th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
10 / 10
Sep 17, 2019

Truly incredible, Sayonara Wild Hearts is a pop-culture gem that celebrates music and games in a passionately individual way. There has never been anything else quite like it, and if you have even a passing interest in gaming’s inherent value you need to play it. And then play it again.

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10 / 10.0
May 10, 2019

Sayonara Wild Hearts is a perfect experience. It may not last long, but it will certainly draw you in with its story, keep you there with its variety of gameplay, and then bring the entire experience together with its amazing visuals and music.

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Digitally Downloaded
Harvard L.
Top Critic
Sep 27, 2019

Sayonara Wild Hearts is the kind of game which opens my eyes to new possibilities that games can provide, and I’m desperately awaiting this style of design to properly take off.

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10 / 10 stars
Feb 26, 2020

In its one-hour runtime, Sayonara Wild Hearts transcends video games and becomes not just a playable pop album, but a hypnotic self-help soundtrack. It's an endorphin factory.

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10 / 10.0
Sep 18, 2019
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Oct 13, 2019

Don’t sleep on this one, it’s a trip.

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9.5 / 10.0
Sep 23, 2019

Short, sweet, and simple, Sayonara Wild Hearts is a package of positivity, with music and visuals that will sure to win anyone over.

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9.5 / 10.0
Sep 25, 2019

It’s an experience unlike many others; magical, memorable, and full of heart.

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9.5 / 10.0
Dec 23, 2019

Sayonara Wild Hearts is easily Apple Arcade's first "killer app" and a must play if you're a subscriber, interested in music games, or just want to try something new. The synergy between the visuals, gameplay, and music raises the bar for the genre.

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9.5 / 10.0
Jan 1, 2020

Don’t let the short length of the game fool you, Sayonara Wild Hearts is a genuine, heart-filled blast. The music has the potential to send you through waves of bliss and make your spirit soar.

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92 / 100
Sep 29, 2019

Aside from its length, Sayonara Wild Hearts is basically a perfect rhythm game.

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Game Revolution
Camden Jones
Top Critic
Sep 17, 2019

Sayonara Wild Hearts is a fleeting game, yet, like the best records, is worth flipping over, restarting, and putting on repeat once it wraps up its last track.

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9 / 10
Sep 18, 2019

Everything works in concert in Sayonara Wild Hearts. It's sublime.

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9 / 10.0
Sep 23, 2019

A beautifully made score chaser which has that rarest of things - a soul. Sayonara Wild Hearts isn't just a game, it's an emotional band aid that feels like a warm phantom embrace. Absolutely essential stuff.

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GameMAG
Top Critic
9 / 10
Dec 14, 2019

Sayonara Wild Hearts is an interactive art product that combining game elements and a digital representation of the future. The small length of the gameplay is compensated by incredible dynamics and vivid emotions that you experience during the walkthrough. And this is a great achievement in the world of soulless clones, social projects and serious dramas.

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9 / 10
Sep 18, 2019

Sayonara Wild Hearts is the video game equivalent of Prince: it's extremely short and its journey maybe ends a little sooner than you'd hoped, but it packs so many varied and beautiful ideas into its brief life and masters so many different styles that even though there's a real disappointment it's over so quickly, what it did give you will remain with you for an extremely long time. A true creative masterpiece.

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Sep 27, 2019

Visually marvelous and musically infectious, Sayonara Wild Hearts is a unique experience unlike almost anything else out there. It may not be for everyone, but for a certain audience, it's going to be dynamite.

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9 / 10
Oct 2, 2019

Sayonara Wild Hearts is a hallucinating journey through a short but intense game world that plunges the player into a neon cyberpunk aesthetic coupled with a fantastic soundtrack and delivers an effort that would be close to perfection would it not come to an end just when the experience feels like it's reaching its climax.

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9 / 10
Feb 13, 2020

Sayonara Wild Hearts is a shot of pure positivity to the heart, delivered with excellence, fun, and finesse through a staggeringly bold and bop-worthy soundtrack.Jacob Ridley

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4.5 / 5.0
Sep 24, 2019

Let it be known that one needs to really play Sayonora Wild Hearts in order to truly experience it.

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