What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.
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What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.
Inspired by personal stories. You play as Annie, an elderly woman whose memory is starting to betray her. Annie and her children cope with reversed caretaking roles as she moves from her long-time home. While her children clash over how to care for her, old memories of Annie’s long-dead brother start to emerge.
As Long As You're Here is a subtle reflection of what life with dementia might look like, and a story about complex sibling relationships.
As Long As You're Here is a short and personal experience made with care by a small team of developers.
The aim is to create a mature and nuanced experience that shows the difficult repercussions of losing not only your memory, but also your agency and sense of time and place.
What disappears when we forget?
... and what resurfaces?
Short & Subtle: A short and subtle experience designed to be enjoyed in one sitting.
Personal: Inspired by real stories and includes real-life photos of the developers' own family members - some of whom suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
Story Rich: Explore Annie's life through dialogue, mementos, and letters from the past. Meet family members and unpack the tensions and dynamics between them.
Subversive Vignettes: The player's own memory comes into play. As the world around Annie shifts and changes, players share in her failing faculties.
Immersive Audio & Original Music
Autoscopia Interactive is a small and diverse game studio based in Copenhagen, Denmark, with developers from Denmark, The Netherlands, and the U.S.
Our studio name comes from the word "autoscopy" — an experience of "watching yourself" from a distant point of view. We make introspective games that put players in underrepresented roles, and hope to give you a glimpse of yourself from another perspective.
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As Long As You're Here shows life through the eyes of someone with dementia, and while it can be a cathartic experience for some, it might be unpleasant for others.
If this is not a topic you are ready to engage with, skip As Long As You're Here for today and take care of yourself.
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Languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese
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在一个模糊而熟悉的午后，她低下头，用手指理了理发梢。 随后，一切崩塌。 陌生的天花板下，从眼前飞过的事物，从身边掠过的时间。 她还在那，生活却已先走了很远。
她逐渐忘记了一切，那些快乐的记忆，痛苦的记忆，不愿再回想起的记忆。 但她还有爱她的家人，还有那些充满回忆的物品 她所忘记的一切，正记忆着她自己
My grandma is dying from dementia. I don't think she'll be here much longer. It's subtle and sad and the character getting lost in her memories or endless rooms is realistic. The graphics are simple but you can get emersed so quickly. Fading in and out of conversations. Being helpless, losing months. My heart breaks for the person I constantly have to grieve for who is still alive. There is a trigger warning but I wanted to see how it felt to be here. Going from day one over, to day 3, next to December, April, then July destroyed me. The waning cognitive test was a subtle detail that hurt. For my job IRL I review gaudian/conservator/POA documents for financial legalese things and I can often tell how far gone the patient/principal is by their signature. Annie searching for her dad and being sorry for being a burden is depressing. The memories fading but the emotions sticking is real. Thank you for the perspective. I won't be able to play again, but it was beautiful and I'm going to miss my grandma.
♥
tears were shed
This game is an absolute masterpiece that shows how lonely and terrifying dementia can be for the person having it. It simulates the feelings of confusion and the misremembering of mundane everyday things, gradually getting worse and making you feel helpless. Solid 10/10
very good. my mom suffers from memory loss. it was nice to play this and remember its worth it, even tho its hard.
Sobbed very hard. Would sob again. 10/10
Ich empfehle dieses Spiel allen die mit Demenz oder ähnliche Erkrankungen in der Familie zu kämpfen haben. Das Spiel leitet einen durch die Sicht einer betroffen Person auf einfache und liebevolle Weise. Es hat mich zu Tränen gerührt und mich meinen Vater näher gebracht. Ich denke, dass ich jetzt vieles als Angehörige besser verstehen und einordnen kann. Ich danke den Entwicklern ♥
10/10 game. It's a beautiful 1 hour game, and it tells such a sad story but it's true for anyone who has dementia or someone who know someone with that disease. The game will make you bawl your eyes out.
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