Touring Gentle explores a troublesome time within the lives of a number of associates, letting gamers see that relationship via a number of views.
CONTENT WARNING – DEPRESSION, SUICIDE
Life itself is one thing that has ups and downs. This can be a recreation that showcases a friendship between 4 people, a few of them having a quarter-life disaster and others simply making an attempt to be supportive. It’s a story pushed recreation that handles matters of suicide and melancholy, with the suitable warnings as properly.
Within the demo that I performed at Devcom, the pal group was consuming and having enjoyable in a backyard, being associates and having conversations about their connections with each other. It’s clear they’ve all identified one another for ages and revel in being round one another. Then, the sport quick forwarded to the long run, when it was made clear that they weren’t going to have the ability to hang around collectively on this greenhouse. That’s when a tragic flip was taken, and instantly one of many associates have been dedicated to a psychological hospital.
Touring Gentle touches on how problematic locations like psychological hospitals may be via mini-games the place it’s good to discover and conceal your stuff earlier than folks come or via minimize scenes that present your incapacity to be your self. Throughout the recreation, you do swap between the characters usually, studying extra about what they’re pondering or what they’re going via. Generally it’s extra direct, whereas different occasions you’ll simply be seeing glimpses and ideas on what this character has on their thoughts.
Conversations occurring between the pal group are additionally attention-grabbing and really properly written with moments of awkwardness in addition to lighthearted banter. What’s attention-grabbing is that there’s a capability to re-wind the dialog and see it from one other pal’s perspective, deciding who ought to finally be the one driving the dialog based mostly by yourself selections.
From my restricted time with the sport, I really feel Touring Gentle is vital, significant and impactful. I really needed to know extra about these characters and the way they have been going to stay associates in any case of this.
Touring Gentle is at the moment in growth, however within the meantime, you possibly can comply with its builders on Instagram.
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