Faraway’s Unprecedented 16-Year Development Has Resulted in an Instant Classic

You can’t rush perfection. So many artists have created their life’s work after decades of toiling in the lab like a mad scientist. But when it comes to video games, a laborious life cycle rarely results in a masterpiece. Due to rapidly changing tech, a game that’s in development for a decade can often wind up dropping as a Frankenstein monster built from the bones of shifting design trends and hardware changes. So it’s a miracle that Faraway , a game that’s been in development for closer to twenty years than ten, lands as a little triumph.