About This Game Now with full Vive VR support!An isolated town.Dozens of ensnared citizens.Each with their own thoughts, each with their own reasons for ending up here.But only one will listen.Find her.Katie, at it's core, is a game about understanding. About talking, dwelling, thinking. Walk around, speak to people, explore the town, uncover secrets (if that's your thing), and listen to Katie. Written during a time of immense personal transition, Katie is a casual yet vulnerable reflection on friendship, dealing with loss, and the pursuit of meaning in the midst of chaos. It's an expression of mind laid bare in a vicarious manner, and a narrative of a life on the verge of sanity.FeaturesA fully realized, living, 3D pixel-art town, cut off from the rest of society and ready for exploration.Dozens of handmade citizens, each with their own look and Idea that they're willing to express. Talk to them, ignore them, or let them be.A vulnerable narrative that unfolds over a week as you interact with the individual that gave this game it's namesake, and seek to understand what drives the heart of the town.Walk around, look around, be around.Secret, post-game content.Fully movable swings (to relive your elementary days)."What are you running from?" 7aa9394dea Title: KatieGenre: IndieDeveloper:Lonely Frontier StudioPublisher:Lonely Frontier StudioRelease Date: 7 May, 2018 Katie Download 12 Mb Katie is a narrative based game created by Lonely Frontier Studio centered around the eponymous \u2018Katie\u2019, a resident of a tiny secluded town gated off from the rest of the world. It\u2019s a \u2018walking simulator\u2019 in the most positive use of the term, using the interactive medium to really drive home the personal feeling that the game has.The gameplay consists of talking to Katie and the other residents to learn more about their stories and the nature of the town itself. While many other games in the genre \u2013 Everybody\u2019s Gone to the Rapture comes to mind \u2013 have you piece together a mystery by investigating inanimate objects, Katie focuses on face-to-face interaction. This, alongside the nature of the game\u2019s subject matter, gives it a very intimate feeling.Katie has it\u2019s issues, too. My first thoughts were that the walking felt a bit too \u2018floaty\u2019, and it\u2019s a little unpolished (There were a few times where I would accidentally talk to someone through a wall, or even through another person). I didn\u2019t experience any major issues though, and I can forgive a lack of polish for a game made by a single person.What it lacks, Katie makes up for in narrative and aesthetic. From the first conversation I was interested in learning Katie\u2019s story, and despite the lo-fi art style, it\u2019s able to create some beautiful scenery. I think it\u2019s worth picking up for any fan of the genre, and I\u2019m looking forward to Lonely Frontier\u2018s next project.Full review: https:\/\/indierave.wordpress.com\/2018\/05\/11\/review-katie-a-friendship-built-on-loss\/. This game was great. I like the pixely graphics, and teh story is great.It is obvious that the story has some personal story behind it, and that really makes it feel real.. This game was great. I like the pixely graphics, and teh story is great.It is obvious that the story has some personal story behind it, and that really makes it feel real.. Hard to know what to say. I could relate very much to several of the themes in the story, which is told in an elegant, charming way. I didn't expect to see anything quite like this on Steam, though perhaps I need to look around more.I met the author at an exhibition at MIT. He got my vote for best of show. I think that if you are an indie game developer, which includes me, and if your game is unusual, these shows can be good because games that are really different do stand out from the others.I liked the simple style of the environment. There actually is quite a bit to the town and some places that will surprise you, so don't be fooled by the simple presentation.But mostly it is a time to think about life and relationships, motives, people you have known and why they do what they do, perhaps even about why you write or play games! I'd say a lot more, but since it is an exploration game and inexpensive to try, I think it's best that you try it for yourself.And, as stated in the forums, the closing credits and background music are special.. I stopped playing Katie after a couple of in-game days. I wasn't impressed or intrigued; it looked like a dodgy 3D game from the early 90's and I couldn't figure out what to do.What I did end up doing, is coming back to it a few days later, mainly to find Katie, who had arranged to meet me by some swings but hadn't. This time she did and it all rolled from there.The maturity of the writing carried me through the rest. This is essentially a monologue about grief and loss framed within conversations with a somewhat lost soul milling around in some kind of limbo. While the audio and visuals might seem overly basic, they do end up serving their purpose quite well, the closing credits song is worth the price of admission alone, in my opinion.All in all a funny little game, but one I think I'll remember for a while.. My Review For This Game:Pros:- I enjoyed the pixel style graphics.- The idea behind the game was good.- I was interested in the story.Cons:- There is no menu to change sound options or keybindings or anything.- The "record store" is WAY too loud.- If I pressed ESC, I couldn't find a way to keep playing and had to start over from the beginning.- Used a Swing and when I tried to leave it, it pulled me back into it and started rapidly moving everywhere and when the game faded to black and spawned me on the next day, I spawned like 100ft in the air and had no way of interacting with the game.Overall, I was excited to play a new pixel style game with a story that interested me but due to the glitches in the gameplay, I wasn't able to progress in the story at all. TL;DR - Good premise but too glitchy.. An interesting short forom (approx 45 min- 1 hr) experience, combining intentionally crude but memorable 3D graphics, and a melancholy tone- feels likea combination of walking simulator and visual novel.I'm not sure that the message resonated with me that much, or that I perfectly understood what the dev was trying to convey, The story touches on lost friendships and being in a difficult place mentally- and some of it may be more fitting for a younger person, but it did evoke some emotional response with me. I found some of the areas in the game visually striking despite their simplicity, and the music complements it well. I have no interest in VR in a general sense, and even dislike the concept, but this is one of the few games I might be interested in experiencing through that medium.
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