The stunning indie adventure Planet of Lana has been out for around a month now on Xbox Game Pass, and for the creative director behind the game, the fantastic reception has been a "surreal" thing to experience.
Adam Stjärnljus of developer "Wishfully" revealed this on the Xbox Expansion Pass podcast last week, highlighting that not only has the general feedback been great, but he's also been thankful for the praise from Xbox's Phil Spencer:
"It does feel really good. I'm happy that Phil [Spencer] liked it as well. It's been surreal, it really has been. Just trying to take small moments of appreciation and really feeling grateful for [the fact that] people like the game and they play it... I'm so happy about that."

"For us, [the experience with Xbox] has only been very, very positive. Xbox has been so great to work with and they've been so supportive and they really love indie games over there. For us, it was an easy decision."
In our review of Planet of Lana here at Pure Xbox, we gave the game a "Great" 8/10 score, and PX members backed us up on this - voting it the best Xbox Game Pass title of May 2023 by a pretty substantial margin!
The full interview (which you can watch above) goes into more detail about how the game was created, as well as teasing that although there won't be any DLC for Planet of Lana, the developer has "bigger plans for the IP" in the future.
What did you think of Planet of Lana? Tell us down in the comments section below.
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I enjoyed the game. Nothing new or incredible but what it did it did very well.
Right now for Indies, Xbox and Gamepass is the best place to be.
Real nice lil' game. Looking forward to seeing what they do next!
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I finished over the weekend. It was a solid time.
Great game. Reminded me of Limbo a bit. Finished it in basically a single sitting. look forward to the next game from them.
I enjoyed this game. Similar to @Fenbops I thought what it did was very simple, but it did it well. But I was disappointed with the final third. It didn't really do or say anything particular interesting which has meant even just a few days on it's pretty forgettable imo. A good game but nothing more.
I sort of enjoyed it, but think I’m just done with Limbo style games atm. I agree with themightyant about the final third, heck the moment she got a certain item halfway through I became painfully aware of how she was probably going to ‘win’ in the end, and alas the ending was exactly that scenario.
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