Разработчик: Matthew Ritter
Описание
To put it as simply as possible, Boon Hill is a game about reading gravestones. There might be a few other elements in the final product but the bulk of the game would be just walking through a graveyard, reading epitaphs and thinking about who these people were and never will be again.
Free Roaming
The game itself has no win scenario. As the protagonist you'll start with a specific gravestone you're looking for, but finding it won't end the game. Looking at every gravestone once won't end the game. Doing everything there possibly is to do won't end the game. The game ends when you decide to leave the graveyard. The experience is yours. It isn't dictated by some preset guidelines.
No Danger
The game has no lose scenario either. There is nothing threatening the player. No zombies bursting up from the graves and no vampires hidden deep in the mausoleums. The gravedigger is not digging a grave for you and it's impossible to be buried alive. There's nothing to be afraid of at Boon Hill, except perhaps your own mortality, despite what some NPCs might tell you.
Though they do say you should never fall asleep in a graveyard.
Discover Mystery In the Graveyard
Boon Hill is not aimless. Boon Hill is about inferred stories, about the connections people have that continue even after they die. The graveyard tells many tales woven by those who've long since passed on: stories of love, life, sorrow, and joy, told over generations.
The threads of narrative are woven throughout the gravestones for you to discover, if you have the inkling to look. A row of graves all with the same last name, most of them having died very young, suggests a specific set of circumstances. An epitaph that reads 'Survived by no one' is dour, yes, but clearly someone carried out their last wishes. Here, people are tied together by something as simple as similar birth dates, the places they were born or died, and even the styles of their grave markers. Subtle stories abound in the rows of stone.
The specifics of what you can expect from Boon Hill:
- Fancy, advanced 16-bit graphics! The kind of graphics you drooled over twenty years ago.
- The ability to choose your gender as male OR female! How very progressive.
- Well over a thousand individual graves and epitaphs! It's the whole point of the game, after all.
- Several NPCs to interact with! At least more than two.
- Crows! The graveyard has a lot of crows. It's as much a feature as anything else.
- Figure out what's up with that weird goth chick! She's kinda creepy.
- Virtual graveyard! Real depression! Feelings of depression are not guaranteed, but reading epitaphs is not known as a heartwarming pastime.
- Lie in an open grave! Haven't you always wanted to do that?
- Real-time mourning! You'll be able to leave flowers, and look sad. All in real time! Only three flowers allowed per visit of the grounds.
- But mostly, Learn about the history of this town and the kind of people that lived their through the legacy they have left behind in the graveyard boon hill.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP+
- Processor: SSE2 instruction set support
- Graphics: DX9 (Shader model 2.0) -generally anything made since 2004 should work.
- Storage: 500 MB available space
Mac
- OS: X 10.7+
- Processor: SSE2 instruction set support
- Graphics: DX9 (Shader model 2.0) -generally anything made since 2004 should work.
- Storage: 500 MB available space
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It will remind you of your mortality and how short life really is.
A beautiful, somber meditation of an experience.
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The Short of it: Quite an art piece, and a fairly unique setting and direction to go in for a game. Very "indie" and low budget, but what it lacks is not the point. If it doesn't make you think, reevaluate your life.
It's a lot like dark souls, but good.
I have experienced loss twice this year, two friends dead before their time. With grief and mourning fresh in my mind I played Boon Hill for the first time today. While I would have appreciated more structure, or at the least a run button, there is certainly something all too raw about reading fake epitaphs for people who were not real but none the less "died."
If you were to put a headstone on a hill, carve a random name into it, make up some numbers, and then walk away, your fiction would become truth given enough time. Someone finding that stone one hundred years from now wouldn't know the difference.
Boon Hill isn't real, but mortality is. Even knowing this game is fictional can't stop me from imagining a life connected to every headstone I found. When I stumbled onto what seemed to be a section for children, I had to leave. I felt real pain.
If you have never known death, I envy you. Maybe Boon Hill won't affect you like it did me. Personally, I felt catharsis, as if fake-grief gave me a respite from real-grief.
Perhaps I'll come back to Boon Hill the next time I need such relief. I hope that's not too soon.
Suprisingly deep and sentimental. Well worth the asking price.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAYhWAUO3bc
Welcome to Boon Hill is an indie game that at first glance looks pretty straight forward. Walk around a graveyard in search of grave stones. There are no zombies, no high score, and no guns. Why on Earth would you play a game like this you ask?
Well you quickly find there's far more depth than at first glance. I came to Boon Hill thinking "ok I'll spend about 5 minutes walking around and get bored". Well a few minutes turned into an hour and I was completely drawn into seeking out more epitaphs to piece together the stories of life and death.
The death of a child, a person that lived life to the fullest, un marked graves, even some funny little easter eggs are all you'll find in just the first hour of play. I feel like there's still more to get out of it. If you enjoy games that allow you to search for clues and piece together stories from the mundane to creepy Welcome to Boon Hill would be worth it for you.
A game, in essence is a mode of entertainment in which humanity has made and evolved. Today's forms of it vary highly compared to it's base. This game, being simple, exercises the root of that idea.
If you love the idea of diving into a setting and connecting puzzle pieces that do not have to be put together then this could be for you.
I for one, love immersing myself into environments and learning the setting through the subtleties. As a graveyard simulation this game does exactly that. And if you have an imagination that has not stagnanted, you can get even more out of this.
A key aspect about this game is that there are no objectives. No orders, missions or timelines that must be met. That open flow allows one to play the game at their own pace. You literally play as yourself in that sense, going wherever your fingers want to travel and reading whichever tombstones you feel like reading. There's going to be times where you may skip a grave or times where you will read every single one and you won't get rewarded or penalzied for either or. There's a certain beauty to that.
Anywho, if you are looking for something more objective and mission based to keep your attention focused this game will not be for you. But if you would like a break from the standard, this will be a pleasurable experience.
I just wished that this music played whenever I walk into a graveyard ;-;
Definitely worth a Starbucks Frappuccino.
I came in and played Welcome to Boon Hill having no idea what I should expect. Would I laugh? Would I cry? Would there be hidden zombies I have to fight? While those concepts were few and far between I came to the realization that the game is much more than what people expect from a “typical” game experience. It’s not meant to apprise to tell any set story but aims to set in motion for the user to create their own experience. To define their own meanings.
At face value, Boon Hill can seem as if it’s a modest graveyard simulator but in actuality the graveyard is as disparate as it is eerie. The music is fantastic. It absolutely gives an otherworldly feel that sends chills down your spine as you interact within the world and its muses. Though the sound is simply an undertone to the real joy of play which is the diversity in reading the epitaphs.
From the start of the game you already know there will be plenty to explore as each epitaph you come across is far different from the previous. Some are silly such as one that was simply “This sucks I’m scared of worms.” While there can be others that hit you right into the feels such as “The sun shall rise and find your eyes filled with tears for me for I know that you love me as much as I hold love for you and with the passing of enough days the tears will dry but each time you think of me know I miss you too.” Boon Hill can definitely surprise you when you least expect it.
In the graveyard you walk and keep walking. There is no HUD, there are no map indicators, and there are no mission objectives. You venture onwards unknowingly between yourself, some NPCs, and the massive amount of dead that slumber in their graves. What I take from this is that this game is about the representation of our lives. We don’t quite know where we’re going until we cross paths with something we wish to take the time to glance upon. We meet people, see things, both ordinary and unordinary. And eventually we all come to experience the humor, pain, and intrinsic oddities of what death represents to us.
Recommended.
Not a game for those looking for a mindless experience of pushing buttons and winnning points. This game is a ride, much like a book, through a world you wouldn't think to come up with on your own. There are no rails, no story forced upon the player, just open world exploration through the lives you chose to hear about.
This game give you the chance to actually take some time and think about the concepts presented, rather than being spoon-fed a story or playing a game for pure gameplay, definitely worth the price of a cheeseburger.
Relaxing music, funny gravestones, also some depressing ones, and very artistic.
There's not a whole lot to this. It's not a game, it's not even a simulator -- it's more like an interactive art project someone made for SVA and then figured they could sell on Steam. The music is beautiful, haunting even, and I'd absolutely be willing to pay for the soundtrack, but that's about the only worthwhile part. It doesn't feel like the makers have ever been to a real graveyard, especially not one as old as Boon Hill is supposed to be. Graveyards that old aren't as empty as this game's setting, for one thing; 90% of the "graveyard" is empty space with a smattering of tombstones in small family clusters, even though it's supposed to date back to the 1700s at least. And we're not talking "ruins" or "stubs that are old, broken tombstones, now illegible" -- it's just EMPTY. Lots of grass, maybe a tree, but that's it. Also, it feels like they never finished this "game", since many of the gravestones can't be read -- and I'm certain that's not intentional because they AREN'T blank, they're simply not things with which you can interact in the "game." Clicking on them does nothing. Most tombstones have writing that can be read, some are blank when you click on them, but this third group? Just...not there, as far as the program is concerned. That serves no narrative purpose, there's no explanation for it, and it really just ruins the immersion. Sort of like that Spanish tombstone with the name of "Inygo Montoya" on it. Har har. Also, the Spanish tombstones? Yeah, they're pretty clearly just English things someone ran through Google translate and then incorrectly typed out. I wouldn't make fun of "stupid Americans [who] can't read [Spanish tombstones]" (that's the translation for one of them) when you can't even manage basic Spanish spelling, grammar and vocabulary. "Mayora" =/= "Mayoria." I assume the same would be the case for the ones in Cyrillic script. I'm not really sure why they felt this needed to be Kickstarted, but good on them for being entrepreneurs, I suppose.
This game plays like one of the more interesting parts of less well written games. Lots and lots of depth here. I approve.
Boon Hill tries to excuse its lack of mechanics, depth, or polish as a 'minimalist art project which invites the player to self-examine', but really, it's just boring, lazy, and looks like garbage. If you want to read a bunch of epitaphs and feel emotive about the frailty of the human condition, you can just use google. That said, I'm sort of wierdly glad this game exists, if only to prove that it's bad idea.
Found Gordon Freeman's grave, HL3 confirmed for dead. 10/10
The time spent in this game, while currently minimal, has been time well spent. Definitively the "graveyard simulator", this game burdens the player with macabre conclusions, from finding loved ones lost from disease, fire, and some having perished before their own lives came to be. A few NPC's haunt this graveyard, some more disconcerting than others, some instilling wisdom onto the protagonist, but all a very neat addition to this title. Definitely worth every cent, if you're looking for perturbing experience this Halloween.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Matthew Ritter |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 22.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 88% положительных (16) |