BlueSuburbia

I hoped to find a creepy story or something explorational but in the first minutes i just encountered a world that seem to just make me feel uneasy just by showing rl clips. Its cause of that why i stopped playing so early. It just feels like a cheap way to male a horror game. Like endless jumpscares to cover the missing story. I cant recommend this game

It's not finished yet, but what's there so far is haunting and beautiful. The subject matter of the story is very grim and obviously not for everyone, but I really recommend giving it a try. It feels more like rumination and sifting through feelings than something trying to push a certain conclusion or moral, and it feels a lot more personal and authentic for it. If you've played Everything Is Going To Be Okay, this game is oddly much more peaceful yet from a darker place, it's hard to quite describe. The glitch-chic aesthetic is done very well and more prominent in the first chapter. I find the first chapter harder hitting and much, much more direct, while the second is more open and beautiful. There's a lot less story-per-minute in chapter 2, but it feels more engaging and interesting. I do think the second chapter could be tightened up speed/confusion wise, which is my only real complaint so far. Here's my full video playthrough & commentary on the first version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULxwQfVMgGY Also a tip: If you're stuck on chapter 2, press space bar. You warp between several locations key to the plot, so explore around those and you should find all 4 places you need.

I don't think I was meant be the inteded audience here. The experience felt like reading through a 13-year old's diary while being subjected to random, iritating flashing lights and occasional high piched sounds. Tapped out after 15 minutes, sorry! I would recommend Blue Suburbia to you if your favourite words are "darkness", "trauma" and "hate".

Not so much a horror game as it is unsettling or just grim. Which would be fine but narrative is more for shock value than anything cohesive. Graphically it's rather creative... until the 20+ yo text prompts start appearing, clashing with the modern aesthetic. Maybe it's paying homage to the old flash version, but going in blind I don't agree with the design choice. Perhaps I just don't get it. What I do know is after a few minutes of this "game" I didn't want to experience any more.

Great blend of alienmelon's web art style with maximalist 3D shaders and fantastical environments. Knowing some of the context behind the story of the game, it explores the material very well. I also loved the bits in the beginning that use the Bitsy game engine. Love seeing all the mixed media in general. I'm looking forward to seeing how the game develops.

I have been a fan of Nathalie Lawhead's work for a good few years. I first fell in love with "EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK" when I found it on itch.io through a YouTuber, and subsequently stumbled upon the original Flash version of BlueSuburbia. I couldn't personally feel the same way about the poems in (the original) BlueSuburbia compared to EIGTBO, but the artistic aspect of how all the poems were put together was what drew me in. I will forever feel nostalgic to the music choice made in the original version, and I have to admit I'm a little sad that it didn't carry over in the reboot. However, a lot of the other aspects did make its way into the new BlueSuburbia, such as the text to speech voice, wobbly text, symbolism (with the eyes and butterfly), to name a few. The reboot is not at all similar to the original; there is an entire third dimension you can explore in. Admittedly, it's kind of trippy and confusing to navigate and I'm not sure if that's how you're meant to be feeling. In a way, it's like the original in the sense that it doesn't hold your hand and necessarily guide you in a particular order that you should be reading the poems. But as of writing this review, I got too lost and decided to put the game down before I decide to try again. I was unbelievably overjoyed to see a post about this game and its early development. I'm glad it's finally here now. There's a lot of pain written in the author's work, and I can only hope writing offered them at least a little bit of solace.

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