Pyre isn't a bad game. It's worth playing because it does showcase some of the Supergiant Games strengths; namely, excellent art work with expressive and world design. It truly feels like fantasy, from the types of characters you encounter to the areas you traverse. It's gorgeous, to put it simply. Pretty original game but the sport combat wears thin fairly quickly, the story is boring and the decision making is not deep.

The more I played Pyre, the less incongruous the combination of NBA Jam-style gameplay and broad JRPG-esque writing seemed. Pyre lives and dies on the players' emotional connection to its characters; having the climactic confrontations be non-lethal, ritualised violence rather than the usual video game mass murder makes the protagonists more sympathetic and offers opportunities to meet your opponents repeatedly, until you start to empathise with them.

My favorite game. The mix of visual novel-esque roleplaying and a sports/action game where your failure simply continues the story is pitch perfect for me.

Offers everything I want. Art style is on point, the music - stunning and combining a sporting gameplay with an immersive atmosphere sucked me in whole. I felt incredibly close to all the characters and 'Pyre' delivers one of the most rewarding endings I've ever had in a video game.

It's clear the developers worked with a smaller budget. Pyre feels like a casual game: cheap and inconsequential. Those weren't words I'd have associated with Supergiant Games previously.