I Write Video games Not Tragedies is a narrative-driven rhythm sport about an emo child going by means of life, battling with habit, and rising up.
There appears to be a story sport for each story, however I’ve not performed many video games that deliver to life the highschool story of an emo child coming into their very own. This title is a story rhythm sport all about Ash, somebody who’s making sense of being a young person, crashing out, and exploring music.
This sport goes by means of a personality’s lifetime, permitting you to observe and form Ash’s journey from being a young person within the early 2000s to turning into an elder emo within the 2020s. It follows main life occasions like battling with habit and speaking to his crush. It’s a lifetime of rising up, being cringe, making buddies, and probably letting some go alongside the best way.
A number of what brings Ash consolation is music (which I really feel is a really relatable teenager factor). I Write Video games Not Tragedies does have rhythm parts, the place you must faucet buttons in time with lyrics coming down the display screen, providing you with extra of a concentrate on the songs that Ash is feeling and listening too. There are even moments the place the sport requires you to scream out right into a microphone, providing you with a rating based mostly on how devoted you might be to it. This screaming, particularly at a public occasion (I obtained the prospect to play the sport at Good Recreation Dev Pageant) that I performed it at, made me really feel simply as cringe as Ash does, which I discovered very humorous looking back.
I Write Video games Not Tragedies does have a mixture of cringe and mawkish moments. You possibly can nearly really feel the awkwardness dripping off of Ash, who isn’t fairly an grownup and isn’t fairly a baby, however someplace in between throughout his adolescence. I solely obtained to play a shorter demo of the sport, however discovered myself regarding the nervousness Ash had and that type of over-thinking that youngsters do.
I Write Video games Not Tragedies is on the market now on Steam.
About The Writer
Jupiter Hadley
Jupiter is a prolific indie sport journalist, writing for Metro UK, Huge Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and lots of extra, all with a concentrate on smaller indie gems. She covers hundreds of sport jams and indie video games on her YouTube channel, letting each sport have a second within the highlight. She runs indiegamejams.com, a calendar of the entire sport jams occurring on this planet, judges many jams and occasions.
