How to Say Goodbye story puzzle game due on Linux after Mac and Windows PC. According to details from developers Florian Veltman, Baptiste Portefaix, and ARTE France. Due to make it’s way onto Steam.
Publisher and co-producer ARTE France and authors Florian Veltman (Monument Valley 2 / Assemble with Care / Lieve Oma) & Baptiste Portefaix (Oniri Islands) are proud to announce their new video game, How to Say Goodbye. Which is a story puzzle game exploring the theme of mourning and loss. Due to release in 2022.
There is also hope for Linux support going forward.
Hopefully we’ll find the time to make a Linux version of the game (just out of principle!), but initially we’re going to release the game for Windows & macOS.
Obviously How to Say Goodbye is not a day one release. According to the comment on Steam, this is a time-based port.
How to Say Goodbye | Reveal teaser
How to say Goodbye tells the story of a character recently turned into a ghost. Also lost in an unknown world populated by spirits. In this story puzzle game, players will have to help the characters escape the liminal space. Doing so between life and death in which they are trapped.
The player can move the elements of the decor on a grid to guide the ghosts to the exit symbolized by a door.
But a mysterious wizard is due to keep them from moving forward…
Inspired by the golden age of children’s literature and illustrated books (such as The Moomins by Tove Jansson, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak), How to say Goodbye deals with the theme of grief with kindness and sensitivity.
Still shocked by their recent passing, the ghosts of How to say Goodbye try their best to leave the limbo they are trapped in. Together, they will have to discover how to mourn in order to accept their own death, and “move on”.
How to Say Goodbye story puzzle game will available in 2022 on Steam. Hitting Mac and Windows PC first, then Linux.