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About the StoryYour awakening is slow and feels strange. You must have slept for a long time. Game Details
Language: English (en)
First Publication Date: January 16, 2015 Current Version: 1.0 License: Freeware Development System: Twine Forgiveness Rating: Merciful IFID: Unknown TUID: 2obu9uhu6hbamufg |
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Melancholic space explorations, February 15, 2016You wake in your spaceship, sluggish. What are you here for? You can't remember. Your ship's not in the best shape; you've got to explore the stars. You may not have enough power in your engines to blast off once you land...
Traveler is a small, procedurally generated exploration game, with randomly generated descriptions of the stars. The individual planets are sometimes quite shallowly implemented, but Sandel uses each star as a pacing device. As you travel through the stars, your ship's stats decline, giving a tension to Traveler. Sandel's writing is strongest, I think, as she describes what you, in your travels, have missed; thoughts of home occur at the strangest times.
Overall, Traveler feels like a much more sensible version of Porpentine's Ruiness - both are about travellers who never make meaningful connections in any one place, for whom travel is work, whose constant moving around alienates them from everyone around them. A melancholic work which nonetheless ends on a hopeful note.
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