The Longest Stroll is a considerate and emotional story about scuffling with psychological well being and making an attempt to determine what to do to proceed dwelling.
CONTENT WARNING: DEPRESSION, SELF-HARM
This recreation is extra emotional, specializing in the phrases with minimal visuals to guide you round. All through it, you’re transferring ahead, strolling by means of numerous scenes and locations. These completely different locations really feel fragmented, but additionally look very life like, creating the sensation of being inside a reminiscence.
This story is each written on the display screen and instructed by means of emotional audio. as the sport was created by enhancing an hour lengthy interview that the developer had finished with their very own father who shared his personal story. I can’t start to think about what an emotional expertise that might have been and the way sturdy their relationship have to be for his or her father to have the ability to discuss such private emotions so brazenly.
The Longest Stroll feels deeply private (unsurprisingly) as you take heed to the mind-set this individual was in. The fears and detrimental ideas that have been on his thoughts. How he slowly parted methods together with his buddies, his hobbies, and something that made him really feel human. The goal of this expertise is to assist promote speaking about psychological well being, and it’s a recreation that I really feel folks would discuss because of the private nature of the story that may be present in it. There aren’t actually targets past transferring ahead and experiencing the story, however that permits you to give attention to the core of the story and what it means for you, so long as you’re in the precise state of mind your self. The emotion all through this recreation might be heard within the narrator’s voice, and the damaged, memory-like setting looks like you’re there with him, listening and, hopefully, understanding.
The Longest Stroll is on the market now on Steam.
