Earlier this week, one in every of my business friends James Bentley (they’re over at that different website about PC video games, GamerPCs I feel it is referred to as) put out a video essay titled “I Can Guarantee You This Game is Going to be Underrated“. Trusting in James as a critic of assorted and attention-grabbing style, I clicked via and located that yeah, they’re proper, it in all probability will likely be. Nonetheless, I additionally get to put in writing about indie PC video games for a residing, so I might love to do my half in telling you about this unusual, point-and-click/ visual novel referred to as Decade.
I do not suppose Decade is a straightforward, or maybe comfy sport to explain, given its heavy themes. The sport follows 4 kids, particularly the 4 final kids on all the planet, the one survivors after metallic rain killing nearly everybody else, the remainder of them subsequently killing one another. Someway these youngsters handle to get a time machine working, with three of them in a position to journey again 10 years to try to save the world.
The factor is, time journey or not, ageing comes for us all, and these kids do in reality get older throughout these 10 years. Whereas prior to now, they’ll “examine paperwork, applied sciences, and artefacts to grasp historical past”, all of the whereas attempting to make selections that may lead you into a number of completely different futures. This, to place it plainly, is an idea that can seemingly proceed to maintain me up at night time.
How a lot guilt ought to I really feel for main these kids in direction of a future which may not even be habitable? Will I waste their years away in doing so? Do they get to have a future? These are questions I am but to reply myself via taking part in the sport, however I might wish to, and it will be good in case you had been occupied with attempting to do the identical.
Developer Final Piscean labored on this solo after shedding their job, they usually nonetheless have not managed to search out one, and with the sport releasing at this time (with a reduction that makes it the worth of two cups of espresso on Steam), there is no higher time to test it out than now.
