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The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother

The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother

|South Korea|Indie, Adventure

8.1 /10

Aww Great!

Niche

276 ratings
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Steam · Player score8.1/10276 ratings
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Why play it

The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral. The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer's psyche and discover the contradictions that define him.

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Rating momentum

Aww Great!: 8.1/10 across 276 ratings. Word of mouth is strong — if you like the genre, go for it.

Play style

Leans into Indie, Adventure — a quick read on whether that fantasy matches what you usually enjoy.

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DarkstationLee Mehr · 6 Aug, 2020
5/10

The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother is too uncoordinated in the game being made and the story being told. It hits a strange chord with me because I find Somi laudable and his previous work worth investigating. The visual/audio design’s toned-down, retro ethos marries well with the saccharine storytelling and yet, obstructive gameplay frequently flatlined my drive to turn the next page.

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