Announced end of 2021, How to Say Goobye will come out as planned this year. According to the trailer released yesterday, Florian Veltman’s narrative puzzle game (Monument Valley 2, Lieve Oma), Baptiste Portefaix (Oniri Islands) and ARTE France (Inua – A Story in Ice and Time, Unmaze…) will be available on November 3 at a price of € 12.99 on PC via Steam and Nintendo Switch and against the sum of € 4.99 on iOS and Android.
A poetic and touching title speaking of mourning
For those who have never heard of this title, this one aims to approach the subject of mourning in a poetic and touching way. “inspired by the visual codes of children’s literature” (Tomi Ungerer, Tove Jansson, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Maurice Sendak…). We will follow the story of a character who has just died and who must learn to accept his fate by traveling in an unknown world populated by more or less benevolent spirits and ghosts.
According to Florian Veltman, “a universal experience but specific to each individual, mourning arouses strong emotions. However, in most video games, it is reduced to a violent act: death serves as a metaphor to indicate to the player in an extremely binary way that he loses or that he wins, that he exists or no longer exists. We wanted to approach the subject in a more subtle and positive way, with delicacy. »
See you in three short weeks to discover How to Say Goodbye on PC, Switch and mobiles. If you want to learn more about this production, a demo is available on Steam.