Bye Sweet Carole

Gamer Social Club: 8 / 10 by Sean "KingOTheCask" Richards

I know that I definitely presented a veritable list of hiccups with Bye Sweet Carole. But ultimately, they didn’t take me away fully from what I wanted: a good story. I am not one for crying (not a masculinity thing, I just don’t cry too much) but I did find myself getting a little choked up at the end of the game. Bye Sweet Carole will provide you with the gamut of emotions, from stress and discomfort, to happiness, to joy, and to outright sadness. You’ll panic when getting chased by a raging bunny with a meat mallet. You’ll laugh when you hear some of the lines from Baesie. And maybe you’ll cry when you see the resolution of Lana’s journey. Bye Sweet Carole offers this all in a neat little puzzle-game package.

LadiesGamers.com: by Mina Smith

Bye Sweet Carole is fine, but it doesn’t live up to the hype. Overall, it’s just aggressively fine; it’s not super fun to play, but it is really gorgeous. I hope the developers keep working on this game.

TheSixthAxis: 6 / 10 by Steve C

Bye Sweet Carole is a curate's egg of a game, with the presentation being truly superb and the storytelling excellent, but the bulk of the game experience just isn't fun. The frustrating platforming and stealth, combined with the review build being quite buggy, led to me finishing the game with gritted teeth rather than enjoyment. The bugs can be fixed (and the devs are working on patches) but the imbalance between the two gameplay styles is a more fundamental issue. If you can see past this then the game has a lot to offer in terms of aesthetic and story but, ironically, these can be enjoyed through watching a playthrough without subjecting yourself to the frustration.