- Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Cibele is a game about love, sex, and the internet. You play as a 19 year old girl who has become close with a young man she met in an online game. Her relationship with him heats up, becoming more and more intimate with each phone call and private chat.
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Grave, spare, intimate and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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Digital ChumpsEric LaymanNov 20159.2/10Finding yourself is difficult. Finding someone else is complicated. Cibele bears both burdens in a candid and empathetic glimpse of burgeoning love in the 21st century. So many games either waste or misunderstand their medium as a storytelling device while Cibele thrives inside of its own technology. By no coincidence, it's one of the most human and relatable games, too.
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Paste MagazineGita JacksonNov 20159/10Cibele, I don't think, was supposed to make me cry, I don't think it wants me to linger on how things ended. It's supposed to help me let go. I hope that I will.
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Game InformerKimberley WallaceNov 20157.8/10Cibele is an interesting look at dating and life in the Internet age, highlighting the complexities of relationships and communication
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The A.V. ClubJake MuncyNov 2015This is a game about that drive to connect, to see others and yourself clearly. It's an experiment in how a creator might put themselves into a work and make a game that speaks honestly about their real life to the people who play it. Through Freeman's relationship with Ichi, it also illustrates how the distance between people shapes the way they understand each other, and how collapsing that distance can be a profound risk. It's the same risk that permeates a project like Cibele, both in the creation and the playing. In sharing so much, with a friend or a lover or an audience, you give up just as much control. What if they don't like what they see?
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Game RantJohn JacquesNov 20152/5 starsWith the game giving such an importance on the audio of conversations and the inclusion of real-life video scenes, one wonders if Cibele would have been better off as a YouTube short, instead of forcing itself into an interactive medium. Nevertheless, the game still manages to be a somewhat enjoyable tale of first love, even if it feels like a 'you had to be there for it' story.
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About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
- Developer
- Star Maid Games
- Released
- November 2, 2015
- Modes
- Single player
- Engine
- Adobe AIR
- Time to beat
- 1.5 h main story
IGDB rating 6.5/10 from 18 ratings.
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