Backwater Eulogy

This is so aaaaaanxgicxreäüi304ßmxeiodjn)"§xcvböhjgf you either understand and feel it, or it's a waste of time and money probably. Personally I found the writing very poignant and touching, and the art is immaculate! Also the story being set in nature with according sound effects, but having that distorted funeral ceremony music clashing with the atmosphere is amazing. Unfortunate that it has very little content but...

15 found this helpful, 2026-09-05

This is a very short kinetic novel (a form of visual novel that does not have branching) about the death of a family member, and his life in the rural US Midwest. I bought it because I want to see more games set in the rural Midwest :) and because I saw the developer post some screenshots of the art on Bluesky and I liked those a lot. I thought that it would be heavy on the art and there would be only a bit of text,...

2 found this helpful, 2026-03-10

This got me thinking about my own father more than I have in recent memory. Gorgeous art, too, especially once you consider the myriad ways it wouldn't exist if not for the subject of the eulogy. You could say it's yet another fruit from a tree.

1 found this helpful, 2026-06-25