Разработчик: Nuclear Fishin' Software
Описание
MAKE CORNFLAKE NACHOS.
CONFRONT THE GHOSTS OF A DEAD INTERNET.
PRETEND YOU DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH.
GET ARRESTED FOR APOLOGIZING TO A COP INFORMALLY.
KISS YOUR CRUSH.
START AN ARMED INSURRECTION.
WATCH ANIME.
DIE FIGHTING FOR YOUR RIGHTS IN A BLAZE OF GLORY.
START OVER IN NORTH AFRICA.
WATCH LESS ANIME THIS TIME.
Four Horsemen is a visual novel / SLG about homelands and the immigrant experience. Play as a group of four contemporary immigrant teenagers squatting in a World War II era machine gun bunker, trying to find a place for themselves in a pre-apocalyptic, present-dystopian country that has no place for them. Will you go native, turning against your own people to bury the past your parents fled to escape? Will you cling to your parents’ identity at any cost, at the price of being a permanent stranger in your adoptive country? Or will you strike out on your own, turning against both your homeland and your adoptive country to shape a destiny for yourself? Love is all you need…and also improvised firearms.
Four Horsemen is not another hagiographic, pioneer-tradition, self-exotifying immigrant explainer about being slightly different. It is an exploration of human migration in terms of people–neither as mythology nor as political platform, but as a difficult decision made by ordinary human beings caught in impossible circumstances, with consequences that ripple for generations. This isn’t a game about finding yourself…it’s a game about your self finding you.
Drawing from the developers' real lived experiences, interviews with current and former immigrant teens from around the world, and a year of painstaking anthropological research, featuring 4 different main storylines, 9 different endings, 12 different playable homelands (all of which play differently), and a multitude of agonizing, important decisions, Four Horsemen tells a powerfully compelling, heartrendingly familiar, brutally honest story about what it's like to be a stranger in a strange land. One playthrough can be finished in a matter of hours, but you’ll want to revisit it again and again to see all of the many stories the game has to tell…and to pursue that elusive dream of a land you can call your own.
Exciting Bullet Points!!
- YOUR DECISIONS MATTER. Hard choices you make at the beginning come back to haunt you at the end. Characters turn out to be heroic or villainous depending on how you treat them--and they don't always reward you for treating them well.
- NO TWO COUNTRIES PLAY ALIKE. Each homeland has its own unique vocabulary, cultural values, prejudices, and history. Choices that are a good idea in one country turn out to be a reaaaaally bad idea in another. Like a real immigrant, you'll have to read your new culture and learn to adapt.
- NOT JUST BLACK AND WHITE. No faction reputation system! No alignment meter! Four Horsemen offers realistic, genuinely difficult moral choices, and to some questions there are no right answers--only different consequences.
- DELIGHTFUL CRAFTING SYSTEM. Make that cold, austere war bunker feel like home! Dive into dumpsters scrounging for parts, or buy them with your earnings from your terrible day job, and make DIY versions of things you could never afford! Characters interact with things you build. Make a disco ball and they'll throw a dance party, patch up that hole in the roof and they'll enjoy a quiet moment together on a rainy day. But beware--the system is not exactly fair to immigrants...
- TRIUMPH OVER HATE. A stranger pulls a knife on you and screams at you to leave town--what do you do? Do you try to de-escalate the situation with words...or respond by drawing your own blade? Our combat system replicates the anxiety and terror of real violence, not a power fantasy.
- THE MOST ADVANCED PROFANITY SYSTEM IN A VIDEO GAME, EVER. Audited by real current and former teenaged native speakers! Learn how to cast aspersions on a person's ancestry in 10 different real-world languages!
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS: XP
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Storage: 313 MB available space
Mac
- OS: Mac OS X 10.6
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Storage: 271 MB available space
Linux
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Storage: 292 MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
As someone who has ancestors who were illegal immigrants, this is pretty special to me.
We can't ever go back to the fatherland, and like HELL l can call this place home.
We are the orphans of the world, the forever-exiles.
I keep telling myself that having no anchors means no chains. But I still fear - is it a blessing or a curse?
I'm kinda suprised that this game isn't more well known!
It's amazing! From when I'm typing this, I've only played it once and that's just one of the endings! The story and plot is so relatable, It can make you laugh for one second, and then it hits you in the heart in the next. Not to mention that the art in the game is really nice! If no one told me about this game, I would have never thought about buying it! I highly recommend it to everyone!
Writing: The humor made perfect sense for older teens, growing up recently in a remarkably shitty world. I think it won't play well with people who are invested in their perspective of never having experienced this bullshit. But I think halfway considerate people and anyone who has dealt with this will find it thought-provoking or reaffirming.
Gameplay: I also like that replays include hints to let you know when you'd be straight-up repeating a story line. It's frustrating to rely on save points, but that could be intentional to reflect how sporadic and severe the random consequences can be. I'm also really struggling to get one of the endings, and there aren't many online resources to guide me.
Music: The music is fantastic in some places, but really doesn't transition well into different tracks. As well, the daytime menu music can become grating in one of the storylines. But there is some great spontaneity for set pieces to amp up the humor or scene moods. The sound effects nicely complement sudden, punchy moments, or subtle changes.
Overall: Do buy and play through this game if you want to give it a genuine shot!
If you just want to rag on it for not matching your personal worldview, then give it and its fans a miss.
And if you're unsure, I'd recommend you follow and wait for a sale. But overall I do think it's well worth the standard price.
This is an interesting game so far. I've completed one 'loop' and I'm honestly intruiged as to how the others go. The general idea of the game is plan to see and executed pretty well honestly.
General Pros:
- The artstyle is GREAT
- Good characters
- Well done story
- Generally feels polished
Minor Cons:
- I don't know if this is intentional, but some music tracks can seem a little off-time or the seperate character audio tracks (awesome touch btw) can kinda go off time
Ultimately, a game I certainly reccomend.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Nuclear Fishin' Software |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 31.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 100% положительных (4) |