The Longest Stroll is a considerate and emotional story about scuffling with psychological well being and attempting 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 shifting ahead, strolling via 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 and instructed via emotional audio. as the sport was created by modifying 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 may 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 overtly.
The Longest Stroll feels deeply private (unsurprisingly) as you take heed to the way of thinking this individual was in. The fears and adverse ideas that have been on his thoughts. How he slowly parted methods along with his mates, his hobbies, and something that made him really feel human. The purpose of this expertise is to assist promote speaking about psychological well being, and it’s a recreation that I really feel individuals would discuss as a result of private nature of the story that may be present in it. There aren’t actually objectives past shifting ahead and experiencing the story, however that permits you to concentrate on 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 will be heard within the narrator’s voice, and the damaged, memory-like atmosphere seems like you’re there with him, listening and, hopefully, understanding.
The Longest Stroll is out there now on Steam.
