Its free, pretty, but has problems that makes one not want to play it more than 30 minutes.

The photo mode is cool, the story's message has good meaning, the trash count is welcomed especially for collecting all the trash achievement. For the devs first offical steam game it was a amazing start. I wish they spent more time on it, cause the use of Chat GPT(Ai) is noticeable and not in a good way not to say I dont think this dev cant do better.

The achievements will pop randomly without you even doing them yourself. The camera is awful and super slow, which is the main reason why I dont recommend this game. There's no volume scroller other than to turn off the music which for me was needed. Traveling through or even trying to get out of the water is a slug and bugged.

it did run though on a steam deck

I am shall just get right to it.
if you are reading this please remember it's just a game
and just one opinion and findings.
yes, in my review I will write this in a mix of bad and good grammar/syntax
a mix of read as written or read as if it's spoken.
this is somewhat how I show/know if something is off when I hear it or read it
I would give this a 6 out of 10 because 5 is not enough and 10's to many. (inside joke from Dapper Manatee - Thomas/Mitch)

any-who 6/10

1. getting around the island is nice and easy but also slow, and feels like a purposeful choice to make the game last longer/feel longer, I think it's not a great choice to push that, for the whole game, for me it gets tedious and boring.

2. I would suggest having some more story or at least "hidden" story for those gamers that re-explore in one play though. it looks to me like there a a few plot holes.

3. some to most of the in-game conversation text needs to be re-reviewed as there are grammar and syntax errors. (English)

4. the gliding function needs some more work as I could not get it to activate most times, and when it did work the animation does not load every time. otherwise gliding was a nice feature

5. more/different/"better" upgrades, if you are going to put in things like scaling up items (backpack) or the like, using boats or running around for 2ish hours (steam rounds down for the time and rounds up the time some) needs to also scaled up some to a point and/or have the option for upgrades.

6. intro does not wait for a person to be able to read the text and in the game there seems to be no way to read text faster if a person wanted to.

7. key controls and video needs more functions like "key binding to a persons preferred style" and have the game load in a windowed/full-screen/windowless mode "like having a smaller screen/window to play the game on"

8. most to ALL of the video/art, in my opinion, is some of the best art and video I have seen in a while and I would metaphorically bet money(I am poor-ish LOL) that it is the best that has come out if it was to be judged against other games, even some AAA games that I have had a chance to play on "steam free weekends" events, the sound are great and the music is pretty good.

9. some achievements seem to be hard to activate like "all locations" and others seem un-do-able or ridiculous like 300 miles for "walking" or "gliding"

I hope this helps with future games and game development