“Interactions with certain characters can effect their moods and effect the way they play in the rite,” Kasavin said. While Pyre has players journeying around a map, training ...

Put on the ritual masks. Stretch. This is magic, but it's something else, something much simpler: it's a sport. One last match, this one with huge stakes. This is the world of Pyre. The Rites ...

Am ambitious exercise in slow worldbuilding, Pyre opens with your character being discovered by a triumvirate of masked figures. They rouse you, ask about your past, bring up nouns that aren't ...

The game sees you meeting and befriending a diverse cast of characters for use in the Rites, a magic dodgeball-basketball hybrid match that makes up the core gameplay loop of “Pyre.” Each character is ...

Pyre is definitely a strange ... The player, a faceless character AKA you, are dumped into the Downside and get picked up by a group of masks people called the Nightwings, or at least that ...

This interference comes in the form of a glowing orb, which can be picked up and hurled into a pyre to dim its flames. But playing the Rites is not as simple as that. Each character can briefly ...

And like those games, Pyre enchants your eyes and ears with beauty at every turn. But this time around, its greatest feat is the unrelenting pull of its characters, a mix of passionate beings that ...

Watching Pyre’s emotionally gripping story unfold, precisely and enjoyably punctuated by exciting, tactical, real-time battles, is to witness just about everything I look for in a video game ...