Touring Gentle explores a troublesome time within the lives of a number of pals, letting gamers see that relationship by a number of views.
CONTENT WARNING – DEPRESSION, SUICIDE
Life itself is one thing that has ups and downs. It is a sport that showcases a friendship between 4 people, a few of them having a quarter-life disaster and others simply attempting to be supportive. It’s a story pushed sport that handles matters of suicide and melancholy, with the suitable warnings as effectively.
Within the demo that I performed at Devcom, the buddy group was ingesting and having enjoyable in a backyard, being pals 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 out of the blue one of many pals had been dedicated to a psychological hospital.
Touring Gentle touches on how problematic locations like psychological hospitals will be by mini-games the place you must discover and conceal your stuff earlier than folks come or by lower scenes that present your incapacity to be your self. Throughout the sport, you do swap between the characters usually, studying extra about what they’re pondering or what they’re going by. Typically it’s extra direct, whereas different instances you’ll simply be seeing glimpses and ideas on what this character has on their thoughts.
Conversations taking place between the buddy group are additionally attention-grabbing and really effectively 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 buddy’s perspective, deciding who ought to in the end be the one driving the dialog primarily based by yourself choices.
From my restricted time with the sport, I really feel Touring Gentle is necessary, significant and impactful. I really needed to know extra about these characters and the way they had been going to stay pals 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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