
The factory chip began to malfunction. Your horrible headaches don’t bother anyone in this dystopian world. “Black Whale”, the attractive white powder, is the only thing that can stop the pain. And show you the life without the horrors of harsh reality.
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You are a worker at the “White Whale” factory. The dystopian world of the future reminds you of the most horrible times from the past. The poverty that reigns in the country and is practically all-consuming does not allow anyone like you to climb the social ladder.
You have a small chip implanted in your brain, automating your work. Annoying and uncomfortable vibrations always causedaversion. However, once you come to the job, it seems to you that your head is about to split. It hurts right in the middle of the brain, where the board is. After barely making it to the medical unit, you realize there's no help coming. No one is gonna help you.
You were agonizing for several days when you suddenly found out about “The Black Whale,” the only drug that can relieve the pain. At the same time, it sends you on an amazing journey on the back of flying whales.
Although there is a problem, “The Black Whale” is very expensive. You have to find money. No matter where, no matter how.
The Black Whale is a first-person psychological linear horror that combines the elements of exploration and story progression.
The main character, suffering from horrible pains, can do nothing but try to get enough money to buy another dose of “The Black Whale”.
Plot progression. Observe the moral and physical fall of the main character. Follow the story, at the same time, trying to find anything that you can sell. Notes, NPCs, and other interactable things that will tell you the story of this dystopian world.
After using “The Black Whale”, you come to another world, far away from all the cruelty and suffering of the harsh reality. The most beautiful creatures in the world—black whales—allow you to ride them and taste life once again.
Returning to reality. You understand that you need more. Sell your property, gradually descending nearer and nearer to the social bottom.
The core gameplay loop consists of exploring locations, reading notes, interacting with NPCs, finding required items, and completing simple objectives.
A short psychological horror game (approximately 20 minutes long). It includes the full story experience, several in-game days, and multiple locations to explore.
Dive into the deepest social bottom. Being a junkie, you have nothing that can stop you on the way to get the new dose.
Sell your property and steal others’. You have to find everything you can to get money from. When you have nothing left, there will be no choice but to turn to theft.
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Languages: English, Russian
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МНЕ НУЖНЫ МОИ ПРЕКРАСНЫЕ КИТЫ!
Definition of depression
Вы работаете на фабрике в мрачном дистопическом мире. Имплант в вашей голове сломался, и вас преследуют невыносимые головные боли.
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Gra krótka ale jak najbardziej odrealniona rzeczywistość problemów dzisiejszego świata, pokazując w jakim kapitalistycznym żyjemy świecie i o problemie z narkotykami. Kocham ten typ grafiki bardzo przyjemnie mi się gra w gry. Przejścia podczas brania narkotyków są naprawdę świetne.
The Black Whale - Шизанутая игра про банальные последствия любых зависимостей! (Которые мы все знаем и показывает их более бездарно чем легендарный фильм Реквием по Мечте). Игра имеет классные и забавные моменты для бесплатной треш игры. Понравилась графика и локация с китами (Также воровать у соседа все что можно, чтобы прикупить еще). Ну пройти можно!
Thoroughly enjoyed the slave simulator, 15/10 would recommend *SCREE* the black whale again! Great short walking sim, hilarious story and viuals!
Игра топ. Разраб умоляю, не слезай с тяжёлых
Very, very shallow.
quite shallow but I don't want to be a difficult Karen with a free game.
earnestly depressing and depressingly earnest if a bit heavy-handed, though for a free experience, i think it says what it needs to as succinctly as possible. you are a veteran wage slave with a brain chip slowly frying you on the inside with little to lose but the skin on your back in a working town effectively abandoned by god if the conditions and workers rights violations are something to go by. eventually, you don't even have that. it's a dreadful mindset to occupy and see through the eyes of but one all too prescient in a world where human brain chips and increasingly barbaric ethics violations are becoming the new normal. perhaps that heavy-handedness has a spot in an ecosystem dominated by ignorance. short stories like these will always have a place in this world no matter their merit or prose because we all could be ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up failures of human beings deprived of futures. at our worst, we'll be no different. though, i'm reminded of the dialogue with that person about hope for the future, for change through the hands of the people. it's a realistic kind of hope in the sense it's a real one many of us have and wish to drive with tightly clutched hands. i don't think we'll all be doomed even if we fall. i'll be reminiscing on these 20-30 minutes for a while.
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