
Make Cute Animal Friends in this 8-bit Gameboy-inspired adventure! But there's something lurking in the woods, with DARK SECRETS you'll need to uncover!
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You just moved to HEDGEHOG HILLS, a small village full of ADORABLE CUTE ANIMAL CHARACTERS! You get your own HOUSE, and can visit the many places in this PEACEFUL area!
There you meet STORM THE SWAN, a ZANY and WACKY character who is always SCARED of something. STORM says there's a MONSTER in the WOODS, but surely, they're only imagining things!
Enjoy this CUTE and EDUCATIONAL 8-bit adventure on your own portable 'Data Kid Entertainment System' available in select toy stores in the California area!
STORM THE SWAN is an 8-bit style Point 'n' Click / Visual Novel Retro-Horror heavily inspired by the era of the Gameboy and children's cartoons of the 80s and 90s. You're a player for the newest children's game for a portable gaming system, but something is happening with the game (as well as the world around you) that is getting increasingly strange and scary.
Meet and befriend several cute animal characters in HEDGEHOG HILLS, live and CUSTOMIZE your HOUSE, UNCOVER deep secrets in the game and witness the collapse of your own world.
Storm the Swan is another addition to the "Data Time Software series", or "Date Time Universe".
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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good game, love game inside of game stuff
Bardzo dobra gra! Straszliwie rozbudowana, bardzo wciągająca, do tego stopnia, że na chwilę zapomniałam o prawdziwym świecie. Dawno się w coś tak nie wczułam. To aż przestępstwo, że dostępna jest za darmo i mówię to całkowicie szczerze. Polecam każdemu miłośnikowi horrorów. Tu jest coś tak niepokojącego. Przeplatanie słodkości z grozą jest dla mnie wyjątkowo straszne. Najbardziej podoba mi się to, że horror rozgrywa się tutaj zarówno na ekranie gry jak i poza nim (nie będę spoilerować), a to co wydaje nam się złe, nie jest największym niebezpieczeństwem. Genialne.
i became real friends with all of them
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Очень хорошая игра. Very good game
It's just a cute game about cute animals, that's it. Don't worry about anything else! [spoiler] Jesus Christ man :( [/spoiler]
CW: [spoiler]Confinement, child abuse, domestic abuse and violence, gun violence[/spoiler] An unexpectedly dark game, Storm the Swan is about helping a group of friendly animals have a picnic in the forest and avoid meeting the [i[monster of the woods[/i]. I loved the art style - it reminded me of some cartoons I liked as a teenager and the switch between reality and the game was spooky and built the atmosphere so well. I thought the story was tragic anditdid blindside me, especially seeing it frim the perspective of a child. A great free game and worth your time.
Great visual novel. Short and sweet. And by sweet, I mean dark and tense with a few genuine lols. Good pacing too. Highly recommend this and really anything I've seen made by CatTrigger.
A super wild ride start to finish. Highly recommended for fans of meta horror.
sooooo good! i love the characters and the dialogues so much. it's really sad for the kid but i'm glad he survived (or not)
"Storm the Swan" is a short horror-visual novel and a great and endearing experience! You "play" an ill-treated child being held in the attic with only your jolly educational gameboy-game at your disposal. The story is a little meta (it's a thing in the VN genre now, isn't ist?) and the contrast between the "Power of Friendship"-game world and the oppressive surroundings can be a little crass and on the nose for some, but it klicked just right for me. The ending was [spoiler] on big gut punch that was somewhat predictable, but really good nonetheless [/spoiler]. Liked every minute of it and for it being free and quite short it is an easy recommendation (if you like indie horror).
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