The Walking Simulators Also Waging War on Loneliness
March 16, 2020 11:07 PM Subscribe
Yestarday, I posted about some free writing simulator games, one of which was recently made free to aid those practicing social distancing. I've just discovered that multiple walking simulators - first-person adventure games with little or no need for puzzle-solving - have been made temporarily free. They're listed below the fold, but the offer that expires soonest (in a few days) is the four games in Colorfiction's catalog (permanent link to their store).
The Colorfiction Catalog (permanent link to their store): Includes Becalm (a peaceful five-minute adrift-at-sea simulator), Nightline (an endless subway simulator), The Sands of Voltark (an interactive sci-fi short story) and the company's biggest game to date, 0°N 0°W (a universe-hopping odyssey).
Far Future Tourism: The first of three volumes of games resulting from Connor Sherlock's Walking Simulator of the Month Club project. Now concluded, the project's three volumes will also be collected on Steam along with other not-yet-on-Steam games by the author within the next few months. These include the already-free TRIHAYWBFRFYH, a lonely farmyard hunt for Lovecraft short story audiobook fragments at the end of the world.
Fugue in Void: Chock full of brutalist architecture.
Naufrage: Already free, this game places the player on an island as mysterious aristocrats on easy chairs floating out at sea observe as the player plays their personal walking simulator - visiting the obvious first destination, discovering mysterious and miraculous sites, searching for mysterious notes... but what happens when you break the rules? The things that happen when you do deliberately pose the question: do glitches count as game content?
Some more free walking simulators previously.
The Colorfiction Catalog (permanent link to their store): Includes Becalm (a peaceful five-minute adrift-at-sea simulator), Nightline (an endless subway simulator), The Sands of Voltark (an interactive sci-fi short story) and the company's biggest game to date, 0°N 0°W (a universe-hopping odyssey).
Far Future Tourism: The first of three volumes of games resulting from Connor Sherlock's Walking Simulator of the Month Club project. Now concluded, the project's three volumes will also be collected on Steam along with other not-yet-on-Steam games by the author within the next few months. These include the already-free TRIHAYWBFRFYH, a lonely farmyard hunt for Lovecraft short story audiobook fragments at the end of the world.
Fugue in Void: Chock full of brutalist architecture.
Naufrage: Already free, this game places the player on an island as mysterious aristocrats on easy chairs floating out at sea observe as the player plays their personal walking simulator - visiting the obvious first destination, discovering mysterious and miraculous sites, searching for mysterious notes... but what happens when you break the rules? The things that happen when you do deliberately pose the question: do glitches count as game content?
Some more free walking simulators previously.
Don't forget that Steam offers remote multiplayer and only one person needs to own the game.
https://store.steampowered.com/streaming/
posted by krisjohn at 11:51 PM on March 16, 2020 [1 favorite]
https://store.steampowered.com/streaming/
posted by krisjohn at 11:51 PM on March 16, 2020 [1 favorite]
I've been meaning to create an itchio account for a while now and this post gave me the excuse and impetus.
Thank you
posted by Faintdreams at 6:33 AM on March 17, 2020 [1 favorite]
Thank you
posted by Faintdreams at 6:33 AM on March 17, 2020 [1 favorite]
Thank you! These are exactly what I need.
posted by mixedmetaphors at 8:54 AM on March 17, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by mixedmetaphors at 8:54 AM on March 17, 2020 [1 favorite]
This is excellent. I was thinking about posting this and here you are doing the good work. Thanks for sharing. :)
posted by Fizz at 9:06 AM on March 17, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Fizz at 9:06 AM on March 17, 2020 [1 favorite]
Connor Sherlock also has a short first-person sorta-platforming game about finding a route climbing and jumping with your jetpack all the way to the top of a cyberpunk cityscape.
It's called CONDOR and I liked it a lot.
posted by straight at 12:29 PM on March 18, 2020
It's called CONDOR and I liked it a lot.
posted by straight at 12:29 PM on March 18, 2020
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