Touring Gentle explores a troublesome time within the lives of a number of buddies, 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 sport 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 sport that handles matters of suicide and melancholy, with the suitable warnings as nicely.
Within the demo that I performed at Devcom, the buddy group was ingesting and having enjoyable in a backyard, being buddies and having conversations about their connections with each other. It’s clear they’ve all identified one another for ages and luxuriate 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 all of a sudden one of many buddies have been dedicated to a psychological hospital.
Touring Gentle touches on how problematic locations like psychological hospitals will be via mini-games the place that you must discover and conceal your stuff earlier than folks come or via 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 considering 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 taking place between the buddy group are additionally fascinating and really nicely written with moments of awkwardness in addition to lighthearted banter. What’s fascinating is that there’s a capability to re-wind the dialog and see it from one other buddy’s perspective, deciding who ought to finally be the one driving the dialog primarily based by yourself choices.
From my restricted time with the sport, I really feel Touring Gentle is essential, significant and impactful. I really wished to know extra about these characters and the way they have been going to stay buddies in spite of everything of this.
Touring Gentle is presently in growth, however within the meantime, you’ll be able to comply with its builders on Instagram.