‘I Write Video games Not Tragedies’

I Write Video games Not Tragedies is a narrative-driven rhythm sport about an emo child going via life, battling with dependancy, and rising up.

There appears to be a story sport for each story, however I’ve not performed many video games that carry 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 youngster, crashing out, and exploring music.

This sport goes via a personality’s lifetime, permitting you to observe and form Ash’s journey from being a youngster within the early 2000s to turning into an elder emo within the 2020s. It follows main life occasions like battling with dependancy and speaking to his crush. It’s a lifetime of rising up, being cringe, making buddies, and probably letting some go alongside the way in which.

Loads 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 components, the place it is advisable to faucet buttons in time with lyrics coming down the display screen, providing you with extra of a deal with 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 primarily based on how devoted you’re to it. This screaming, particularly at a public occasion (I received the possibility 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 nostalgic moments. You possibly can virtually really feel the awkwardness dripping off of Ash, who isn’t fairly an grownup and isn’t fairly a toddler, however someplace in between throughout his adolescence. I solely received to play a shorter demo of the sport, however discovered myself referring to the anxiousness Ash had and that kind of over-thinking that youngsters do.

I Write Video games Not Tragedies is offered now on Steam.

About The Creator

Jupiter Hadley

Jupiter is a prolific indie sport journalist, writing for Metro UK, Massive Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and plenty of extra, all with a deal with 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 happening on this planet, judges many jams and occasions.