The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother
Details: Video game
Initial Release Date: July 10, 2020
Developer: SOMI
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh operating systems
Genres: Indie game, Adventure game, Puzzle Video Game, Adventure
Publishers: SOMI, indienova
Description: The Wake is the last of game developer Somi’s “Guilt Trilogy,” consisting of Replica and Legal Dungeon.Perhaps it means my life simply boils down to this: “Everything I say is a lie.”The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral—a record of the roots of guilt, and the memories and emotions that chain together three generations of a family.The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer’s psyche and discover the contradictions that define him.Explore a generational curse that has swallowed a man and his life.
Initial Release Date: July 10, 2020
Developer: SOMI
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh operating systems
Genres: Indie game, Adventure game, Puzzle Video Game, Adventure
Publishers: SOMI, indienova
Description: The Wake is the last of game developer Somi’s “Guilt Trilogy,” consisting of Replica and Legal Dungeon.Perhaps it means my life simply boils down to this: “Everything I say is a lie.”The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral—a record of the roots of guilt, and the memories and emotions that chain together three generations of a family.The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer’s psyche and discover the contradictions that define him.Explore a generational curse that has swallowed a man and his life.
