TA Playlist Game for August 2023 Announced

We picked four of the highest-rated, most-played games from this year’s annual Bean Dive event for the August 2023 TA Playlist poll. Join us as we traverse the beautiful Planet of Lana!

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Published 31 Jul 2023

We spent the month of July blasting drug-addicted aliens in the space-action-comedy High On Life, but now that the month is over, it’s time to take off your bounty hunter suit and get ready for the August TA Playlist game of the month. With the 2023 Bean Dive recently behind us, we figured it was a good opportunity to feature one of the new games that people are just starting to dig into. We got some stats on the most-dived games at the beginning of July, which unsurprisingly included a lot of recent Game Pass additions. We picked four of the highest-rated games (by TA user score) for this month’s poll. It was a fairly close race, with F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch, McPixel 3, and Bramble: The Mountain King all drawing some praise in the comments, but the winner and your August 2023 TA Playlist game of the month is… Planet of Lana!

Planet of Lana received a lot of buzz when it launched into Xbox Game Pass in late May. This puzzle/platformer from developer Wishfully and publisher Thunderful Games boasts beautiful scenery and a touching story of one girl’s “off-Earth odyssey.”

A planet that used to be a place of undisturbed balance between human, nature, and animal has now become something else entirely. The disharmony that had been in the making for hundreds of years has finally arrived in the form of a faceless army. But this is not a story about war. This is a story about a vibrant, beautiful planet — and the journey to keep it that way. When an army of evil robots attacks her small fishing village, Lana must set out on a harrowing journey to free her sister and the other villagers in order to restore her peaceful way of life.

Planet of Lana has a strong community rating of 3.93/5.00 on TA, with over 47,000 tracked gamers starting it since it arrived on Game Pass on May 23. Around 1,600 of those gamers (just over 3%) have gone on to earn all 25 of the game’s achievements, which is estimated to take just 6-8 hours. You might be able to complete it even more quickly with the help of the on-site walkthrough by WeepingBomber, which will help you earn all the collectibles and complete the game with no deaths to unlock all the achievements.

Here’s the full breakdown on the votes. Planet of Lana held a steady 30-50 vote lead pretty much right from the start, with McPixel and F.I.S.T. trading back and forth for second and third. A fairly close vote overall, but Planet of Lana held on for the win.

As always, you’ll get Playlist credit (and increase your badge count) for unlocking any achievement in Planet of Lana during the month of August, or for commenting in the Spoiler and Spoiler-free threads that will be generated on August 1. Join in the discussion on the TA Playlist Hub and tell us about your outer space bounty hunting adventures.

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