A Painter's Tale: Curon, 1950

A Painter’s Tale: Curon 1950 A gentle and interesting historical tale that doesn’t really hit any emotional high points. Story 📕 A Painter’s Tale tells the true story of the village Curon which became submerged under the waters of Lake Reschen due to a dam being built in 1950. In 2021, a painter called Tomasso visits Curon Venosta, the new town built after the flood. When approaching a strange light in the...

39 found this helpful, 2021-04-17

There’s an awkward place in the industry for video games framed as educational tools, and A Painter’s Tale falls squarely into that category. Even though its tale is a fictional one, it’s interwoven into the history and memory of a small town named Curon, which was flooded in the 1950 to make space for a dam. As history is a weird thing, changing faces depending on who you ask, contested, opinionated, divisive,...

23 found this helpful, 2023-08-10

Curon was a real place in Italy near the northern border. In the 1950s the town was intentionally flooded after construction of a dam for a hydroelectric plant. The only remnant being the bell tower that peers above the surface of the lake. The game starts in 2020 where you play as Tommaso who gets transported back in time to when the town was still inhabited. I’m more ambivalent towards this game than actually ‘not...

19 found this helpful, 2022-06-06