‘ Say Goodbye’ Guides Misplaced Ghosts By means of Puzzles

Say Goodbye joins a newly-deceased ghost in a world of misplaced spirits. By transferring the bottom, you’ll be able to assist them discover what they’re on the lookout for and transfer on.

This transient expertise in grief sees you wandering a number of worlds with a handful of ghosts. A lot of them don’t know the place to go or are on the lookout for one thing, typically feeling uncertain the place they’re or why they’re right here. If you happen to can pair up with them, you’ll be able to assist information them to what they want or the place they should go. To take action, you’ll be transferring the bottom beneath everybody’s ft. It will slide ghosts round to totally different locations, though this typically impacts a number of issues as you progress. You’ll want to consider the implications of every transfer and the way it will have an effect on the surroundings and place of different ghosts to complete the puzzles. They don’t ever really feel like they get frustratingly advanced, however you’ll be able to nonetheless put your self in some annoying positions with careless actions.

As you shuffle by the puzzles, your ghost buddies could discover what they want and transfer on to the subsequent life, letting go of no matter holds them right here. Shifting on requires an emotional journey for these characters, so whilst you’re determining the best way to take care of distinctive environmental interactions and the way they modify up the motion, you’ll even be juggling the run of feelings the ghosts are really feel. You’ll even have your individual ideas, as the sport begins with an obituary of kinds that you just fill in your self. This will create a whirlwind of various emotions as you take care of inner and exterior grief whereas determining a puzzle sport. It’s chaotic in locations, however grief can really feel fairly chaotic at instances.

Say Goodbye rigorously balances puzzling gameplay and a touching take a look at letting go of individuals we love. Its feelings can really feel nearly overwhelming while you’re coping with your individual emotions and people of others, however I can’t assist however really feel that this touches upon these troublesome, snarled emotions of grief that come while you share it with others who’re additionally grieving. Besides you often aren’t the lifeless individuals. As such, it’s a novel perspective, however nonetheless makes for a stirring take a look at dying and what comes after.



Say Goodbye is accessible now on the App Retailer, Google Play, the Nintendo eShop, and Steam.

Joel Couture

Joel has been protecting indie video games for varied websites together with IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Journal, and extra over the previous seven years, and has written book-length research on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is continually looking out for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what video games will be, and seeks to delve into the artistic course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.