The idea of Pyre is really compelling to me, and I expected to really love this game. Ultimately, it bores me, but I can still see how it's good and would recommend it to others.

The basis that is a story that adapts to the failure and success of the player is great! The mixture of gameplay and visual novel for this is a perfect, and it gives a real sense of stakes and weight to each round you play, and it's very compelling to see the consequences of your failure play into the actual story.

That's where, for me, things fell flat though. I didn't finish it, and didn't want to finish it, because the story mostly just bored me. There's a lot of worldbuilding and it clearly ties into a cohesive story that relates to the characters you meet along the way, but it just never grabbed me.
Additionally, I think I might be one of the few people out there who doesn't really like Supergiant's visual style. Again, nothing objectively wrong with, it's clearly beautiful work and great art direction, just not a direction that I like.

Pyre is a good game, that on all accounts should be perfectly suited to my tastes, but ultimately just isn't.

Great little game to explore and soak in the alien world and its atmosphere. Clearly low production value, which is fine, but could do with some QoL features, but that's really a non-complaint for something this small. Really the only thing I thought could be better is if the world was interconnected instead of using teleporters/elevators, I think it would've added to the sense of place of the world. However, the way it's done now makes each location like a little vignette of alien life that feels similar to our own, but just alien enough. Fantastic little experience