Tag: adventure

Recompile

“Combining traditional Metroidvania mechanics with a dynamic narrative system, Recompile challenges players to explore, fight, hack and survive. Discover the many secrets beneath the ancient digital landscape, and prepare for system-wide reconfiguration.

“The game’s entire narrative takes place within 1 second of real time.

“Recompile is a game about choices and consequences.  Life and death.  Chaos and determinism.  Sentience and sapience.  Intelligence exists in many forms. In this dying world, one must explore all possibilities.  Observe and respect all perspectives.  Only then, can we truly survive.”

Wishlist on Steam

Platforms: Windows, PS5, Xbox SX
Release: 2021

Ars Fabulae

“Ars Fabulae is a reflection on power of creative expression, told through a mixture of video game genres.  Exploring an old theatre, you will be able to enter performances, replaying events of the past seen through the eye of an artist.  Unveil the story hidden in the spectacles, where no detail is incidental.”

Wishlist on Steam

Platforms: Windows
Release: 2020

Journey

“Explore the ancient, mysterious world of Journey as you soar above ruins and glide across sands to discover its secrets.  Play alone or in the company of a fellow traveler and explore its vast world together.  Featuring stunning visuals and a Grammy-nominated musical score, Journey delivers a breathtaking experience like no other.”

Probably one of my favourite games ever, a long while ago I had made a bunch of cinemagraphs from my play through which you can find here.  The formatting is a bit pants now but some of the scenes are still cool. :)

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Platforms: Windows, PS4
Release: June 11, 2020 (on steam)

The Lion’s Song

“A series of four self-contained point & click stories connected into an overarching narrative, where player choices will affect the way in which the story unfolds.  Set against the backdrop of early 20th century Austria, every episode follows a different character, each blessed with an exceptional creative mind.  The game pulls players into a story of personal struggle for creativity, human connections and inspiration.”

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Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, mobile, Nintendo Switch
Release: July 10, 2018

The End of the Sun

A first-person exploration and adventure story-based game set in a Slavic fantasy world.  The story surrounds mysterious events of ordinary people living in a small village where the line between myth and reality has faded.  While chasing a fugitive you stumble across the empty village and now must try to discover what happened to the missing villagers by shifting time across the four seasons and through various Slavic festivals.

Back on Kickstarter

Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, Xbox, PS4, Nintendo Switch
Release: 2021

TASOMACHI | 黄昏ニ眠ル街

A relaxing adventure set in a city seemingly deserted by humans, leaving only talking cats.  Explore the beautiful city, interact with the new residents, and collect energy for your airship so that you can fly again.

At the moment there doesn’t appear to be an English translation coming to Steam although that is a possibility in the future, but regardless it looks like a lovely experience.

Wishlist on Steam

Platforms: Windows (possibly PS4 & Nintendo Switch)
Release: TBA

Cleo – A Pirate’s Tale

“A top-down, pixel-art, retro, pirate adventure with a lot of nostalgic flair, humor and a linear story, inspired by the old Zelda games and the classic LucasArts adventure games.

“when Cleo finds a strange pirate-logbook and sees a ghost, who gives her mysterious hints, her boring life is about to get turned upside down.  She is thrown into a dangerous adventure and finds herself in a world of lies, deceive, greed and bad breath – the world of pirates – and most of them are after the same thing: THE TREASURE OF ETERNAL MEMORY.”

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Platforms: Windows, Mac, PS4, Xbox, Nintendo Switch
Release: 2021

VirtuaVerse

“A cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AR graffiti writers, hacker groups, tribes of cryptoshamans, digital archeology, epic cyberwars, and virtual reality debauchery.

“Society has migrated to a permanently integrated reality connected to a single neural network which continuously optimizes their experiences by processing personal data.

“Nathan, an outsider still refusing to comply to the new system, is making a living off the grid as a smuggler of modded hardware and cracked software.  Geared up with his custom headset, he is among the few that can still switch AR off and see reality for what it is.”

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Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Release: May 12, 2020

Down the Rabbit Hole

“A VR adventure that takes place in Wonderland prior to Alice’s arrival.  You will discover a girl in search of her lost pet, Patches, that has wandered into Wonderland.  Guide her as she moves through the mysterious world.  But which way should she go?

“You control the girl’s fate by plotting her journey through an immersive diorama that wraps around you.  Through the game’s many twists and turns, you will find yourself exploring the most wondrous corners of Wonderland, solving puzzles, uncovering secrets and making choices about the story along the way.”

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Platforms: VR, PSVR
Release: March 26, 2020