
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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I'm typically not too interested in visual novels, but this happened to catch my attention on social media. As a free game, it's fairly short and mostly linear, but plays well to the strengths of the genre with its quaint character design, nostalgic art style, and engaging plot. I don't want to spoil anything, but I appreciated how this one sidestepped some of the tropes I had come to expect in the mascot horror / cursed object subgenre.
Nice short game if you want your gut punched with sadness (this is a positive sentence i swear)
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The game has a somber story, I saw roughly what was coming storywise but I did get surprised at some points. The game is a visual novel a very solid one at that just take things at your own pace and enjoy it to the best of your abilities.
What a nice short horror pixel games. Got all of the achievements.
It's just a cute game about cute animals, that's it. Don't worry about anything else! [spoiler] Jesus Christ man :( [/spoiler]
I wanted to start out by saying this game is genuinely so heartbreaking, and I appreciate that. The content warnings, the care put into them and making sure people are safe means a lot to me. I've been through and seen a lot in my life, including abuse in all forms. This game captures that child like coping that I think a lot of people relate to unfortunately. The coping to pray that things will be okay, that some random character will save them. This is so beautifully written, and shown, that it carefully and throughohly (sorry for spelling it's 1 am) handled these situations well. As someone who has witnessed these situations (abuse,domestic violence, yelling, hitting etc) this game is a very real and very sad example of what happens, I love you guys for making this game. I played many games that remind me of my past, and they cover it in ways that left me scared. But this game just filled in that vent void I had in my heart for awhile. Thank you for making such a breath taking game. Ive been going through a lot, and this game while it made me cry, is one that I appreciate so very much. Thank you.
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.
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.
Super cute game! A little dark that's for sure, but Im glad I played it! Im really excited for the other games they got coming out! I think what made it fun for me is I was so convinced it was going to go one way, and it ended up going another haha
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