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DKMode rated Wide Ocean Big Jacket

DKMode rated a game 5 years ago
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Taps into such a personally significant childhood camping nostalgia that it's hard for me to shake. The game adeptly recognizes the camping experience as one whose absence of activities allows you to focus harder on the relationships around you; it crystallizes pre-existing bonds and allows you to form new ones. The quartet of characters are so well-realized with so many small parts that relate to me - Ben's reluctant emergence to a brand new hobby, Mord's hyperactive imagination, Cloanne's need for social isolation, Brad's desire to be the Cool Uncle. Every character is likeable and generous in their own way, and the slice-of-life aspect of it means we can recognize this as just one moment - a significant one, perhaps, but not THE significant moment of any of their lives. In that way it's free to just be chill and funny and show a bunch of nice intimate conversations. I don't think I've played a game with more grins-per-capita.