The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral. 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.
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Grave, contemplative, intimate and spare.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
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“Does the smallness hold it back?”
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“Is the slow pace a feature rather than a flaw?”
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“Does the ending land?”
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About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
- Developer
- Somi
- Publisher
- Somi, indienova
- Released
- July 10, 2020
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Text
- Engine
- Unity
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