Platforms
- PCDec 18, 20207.9playscore7.97 Critics8.4338 Players
- PlayStation 4Dec 17, 20197.8playscore7.319 Critics8.7504 Players
29 critic reviews · 0 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- Wattam is one-of-a-kind and hard to describe, as talking about controls, storyline, and music — seeing it all in words — takes away the emotion and vision behind it. If you play through it with the mindset of collecting all the items and leaving it at that, you won’t get too much out of it; however, if you let your inner child take the reins, you’ll learn a little bit about who you are and how you’ve come to be. What a delightful game and a heartwarming experience. To Takahashi and the rest of the team, thank you — THANK YOU — for this unexpected exercise in true nostalgia. Kaboom!
Heather Johnson Yu · Jan 13, 2020 Reviewed on PCRead full review - It isn't often that you play something that is so pure and unapologetically itself, but that's Wattam. I don't know if I'll ever play another game that makes me turn all of my friends into fruit so I can progress. It oozes passion, and it has an infectious enthusiasm that's present in each and every aspect of it. Wattam never takes itself too seriously, and that makes it easy to buy into its world and suspend your disbelief. While the gameplay is all over the place, Wattam is held together by themes of friendship and a cohesive soundtrack that actually leave you grinning long after you're done.
Funké Joseph · Jan 08, 2020 Reviewed on PS4Read full review - Wattam should be played, if for no other reason than to see a designer expressing ambivalence about his own ideas.
Josh Wise · Jan 03, 2020 Reviewed onRead full review - A wonderful soundtrack and a visual style which is simple but appealing finish setting the tone for Wattam. While it’s a simple, direct game, during my time with it, I almost constantly had a huge grin on my face. Takahashi's brand of weird works for me and even all these years after Katamari, that's still the case. If his style works for you, I think you'll have a great time with Wattam. It may not last you long but it's a time that will stay with you which is worth celebrating.
Andrew Thornton · Jan 02, 2020 Reviewed on PS4 - For me, the off-putting voices and the clumsy controls work with the sparse conceit to create a world that’s oddly ill-fitting. The idyllic madness and the slow, sparse mechanics butt heads to make a game best approached with caution and care. Choose the world of Wattam at your most studious discretion, my friends.
James Paley · Dec 27, 2019 Reviewed on PS4Read full review - Wattam takes the concepts of action and puzzling, and makes them its own. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting all of the wacky and strange characters that Funomena has conjured up. Starting with the lonely mayor and ending with an entire community of over 100 playable characters is a very satisfying progression. However, Wattam doesn’t provide the extra layer of gameplay that I found myself yearning for. After a while, I got a little bored of the shallow gameplay loop.
Donovan Erskine · Dec 24, 2019 Reviewed on PS4Read full review - Wattam isn’t without its flaws; in particular, the more characters you gather, the harder it is to quickly switch between them. But even when your journey’s done, there’s more than enough here to draw you back in, whether you’re tackling the game in co-op mode, hunting for those few elusive characters you’ve missed or just diving into this daft and wonderfully charming world.
Chris Mc · Dec 24, 2019 Reviewed on PCRead full review - “Charming”, “lively”, and “whimsical” are all traits that can be attributed to any Keita Takahashi work. Wattam’s visuals, score, and outlandish scenarios are unrivaled in how they contribute to that trademark whimsical, childlike aesthetic. But while the game does an incredible job making players feel welcome, it’s woefully apparent that it offers little in the way of gameplay to keep them engaged beyond the short story.
Lawrence Le · Dec 22, 2019 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Wattam is a pure, adorable joy. Keita Takahashi's signature idiosyncrasies shine through in this playful game about friendship and finding pleasure in the simple things. Interacting with the wacky cast of characters is great fun, and there's almost no pressure to march on with the story if you'd rather do your own thing. It's a shame the technical side of things lets the experience down somewhat, but when the game is at its ludicrous best, you probably won't care.
Stephen Tailby · Dec 20, 2019 Reviewed on PS4Read full review - What Wattam does successfully is reinforce the idea of play, that doing silly things is fun and doing them with friends is even better. Wattam remembers that child-like is very different from childish, and that carefree play should be as important to a grown-up adult as it was back before we all began taking things so seriously.
James Cunningham · Dec 20, 2019 Reviewed on PCRead full review
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Wattam is a game about the joys of friendship and discovery, from the imagination of Keita Takahashi (creator of Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy) and developer Funomena.
Developer: Funomena