Timothy Leary’s Mind Mirror
I absolutely recommend anyone with even a slight interest in psychotherapy to try this game out, not because it’ll blow your mind or because Leary was some kind of genius, but because it’s a solid example of what I believe to be a therapy-oriented game.
Somewhere between interactive fiction and gestalt therapy (not mention the weird words and “archetypes”), this program is for all I have read basically a reproduction of Leary’s PhD thesis. It might well have been a facebook quiz if it was written two decades later! It’s not particularly avant-garde or exceptionally brilliant as far as I’m concerned, but it’s neat to play through.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
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Fragment
_Omaj - Defy Expectations
Omaj is a group of individuals that defy expectations by presenting captivating visual stories that open the imagination and inspire critical thinking._
Join a boy named Timothy and his alien friend Gus on a journey of self discovery as they explore the colorful world of Fragment. Utilize Timothy and his friends' psychic powers to read minds, shoot fire, kinetically push objects and more to journey to the farthest reaches of Fragment (and beyond!). While on a journey to reconnect with his estranged father, Timothy meets new friends, interacts with a zany supporting cast and travels (both figuratively and literally) beyond his own personal limits.
Features
• A sentimental coming of age story based in vibrant 80’s Pop Culture that is more than it seems.
• Explore and solve puzzles with powers such as hypnosis, pyrokinesis, magnetism and more.
• Interact with colorful cast characters - private detectives, drag queens, yogurt vendors, and more.
• A streamlined experience focused on story telling and maximizing emotional impact.
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Leaving
CONTENT WARNING
This game deals with mature themes. It shows scenes that some may find disturbing, unethical and triggering. It also contains offensive language, gore and violence. Player discretion is advised.
ABOUT
Leaving is an psychological horror from the first person with puzzle elements. The game is inspired by the legends and horror stories of the afterlife. The script was written by the writer Aina’s Way.
In the game, you will wake up in a new world, where dead souls who have not ceased to rest fall. You have to find out who you were during your life, what kind of place it is. This game has several unique endings, each of which depends on your actions during the passage of the game.
In the game, you can easily communicate with other characters and also choose a dialogue, some dialogues will decide your longest relationship and also help from them.
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Linda & Joan
Linda & Joan is a forthcoming narrative game about a British family. You play as Russell, Linda, and Joan — son, mother, and grandmother — switching between them to help the family cope with a series of traumatic events. Based on a true story.
The main game is scheduled for release in 2022. It will be part two of the Linda & Joan story. Part one is Prologue: “Four Months Earlier” which is available now.
Players experience the events from the perspectives of Russell, Linda, and Joan through exploration, conversation, and tasks designed to give emotional insight into the themes of caregiving, dying, bereavement, and homeland.
What sets Linda & Joan apart from other branching-narrative experiences is that while the player has many choices to make, nothing can change the core events that follow — there is only one ending.
However, actions, dialogue choices, and task completion, do affect the characters’ perception of events. By spending time with happier memories, taking care of themselves, and choosing the right things to say to each other, the characters — and therefore the player — will find themselves able to deal with the impossible.
The characters’ emotional states will be graphically represented in the game. The player will have to carefully balance the needs of the characters to progress, sometimes requiring difficult zero-sum tradeoffs.
These mechanisms attempt to mirror the real-life feeling of being powerless in the face of looming trauma, when you realize that no decision can affect the outcome, but you can affect how you and others feel about it.
Even when life’s story feels like it’s on rails, we still have some power over our own realities. There is still room for dignity, compassion, honesty. For fear and for love. There is a time for self-care. There is a time for duty. The choices we make will define the memories we hold for the rest of our lives.
Nott Longa
Such a unique narrative game, the closest thing I can compare it is something like ‘Doll’ by Braisque, it has that gloomy theme to it with philosophical vibes and many strange characters, but with a pretty unique story, something about the game world being a purgatory, a metaphor for being stuck in a nostalgia perhaps, unless maybe I missed the point. Sadly there seem to be a few translation issues, some intentional, some probably not, it’s hard to say because the game uses glitchy dialogue for the immersion. I was about to write a very positive review for this game, but then it softlocked near the end, and being a narrative game that nobody plays, I can’t even look it up, not to mention it leaves me without an important part to reflect on this experience (I liked the story, I still want to see the #$#$ ending though). I guess I could replay it, it’s not very long once you know all the answers to the tricky puzzles, about 2 to 3 hours with no hints, not that any were available when I needed them, but some of the puzzles were pretty creative, like you might have to do things outside of the game, cough cough. It’s one of those ‘cerebral’ games if you know what I mean, weird narrative, strange world, very atmospheric, maybe even experimental to some extent, it has a certain level of escapism which I really enjoy.
– Real player with 4.7 hrs in game
Absolute solid game for the bit i’ve played so far.
I’m going to continue to play more of it and keep updated.
I love the atmosphere and just everything about it.
It’s very unsettling. You go around doing quests for the people for those who have been sucked into the video game, which now is forever their norm day by day home since they can no longer escape from it, and eventually then turn to ghosts.
I can’t stress enough how wonderful this game is.
It’s like nothing i’ve played before.
Psychedelic and philosophical.
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game