“The end of an era, and the beginning of a love story,” the game’s tagline teases. Over the course of the demo, the text is not brought up much again, but the grounds for a mystery have been laid. Once again, Fang is confronted by news they do not know how to process, and players have the option of delving seriously into the mystery or jokingly accusing one of their friends of playing a prank. Later, Fang receives an anonymous text from someone claiming to have always loved them. Hope you all get a chance to check it out! 🙏 /xJubSY94Oy- KO_OP 🦕 GOODBYE VOLCANO HIGH ☄️ ➡️ COMING AUG.29 June 19, 2023 Our new demo for Goodbye Volcano High will be playable online during Steam Next Fest 🥰 So excited to share more of the game ahead of its release this August 29. And Fang’s dialogue choices have players either soothing away that fear or being realistic about what could happen-not an easy choice to make.
It isn’t until Fang meets with their brother Naser-the first face-to-face interaction in the demo-that they are confronted with genuine human (that is, dinosaur) fear. In the end, most people are clearly unsure of what to think about the news, so they fill the void with online chatter and gallows humor. Again, in a post-COVID world, my take on this reaction was….sounds about right. Fang doomscrolls through ‘tweets’ that range from dismissive to argumentative to overly worried to irreverent and so on. But instead of panic in the streets, much of the reaction plays out online. The preview provided to us by indie studio KO_OP spanned the end of the first episode and the start of the second, picking up just after the news breaks. All of these mundane worries become both more trivial and more important than ever when scientists discover that a meteor is going to crash by the end of the school year.
You play as Fang, a nonbinary high school senior juggling the usual adolescent crises-fretting over college, wondering why their friend is spending less time with them, desperately corralling their bandmates to keep up practice. Players watch the story unfold, complete with voice acting and animated sequences, and make dialogue choices along the way. Goodbye Volcano High is an episodic narrative game about teenage dinosaurs facing the end of an era.
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