North

released on Feb 26, 2016

Dealing with the issue of the contemporary refugee crisis while at the same time being deeply rooted in a classical cyberpunk atmosphere à la Blade Runner, NORTH features a dark synthpop soundtrack, a sprawling mega-city and weird monster-like inhabitants.


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Ugh I wandered around in a red nothingness for what seemed like an eternity before giving up on figuring out what I was supposed to find. This wasn't fun at all.

I found this on our switch Thanksgiving of 2019 and played it out of boredom. It mostly felt like what would be a good gmod map with a story designed to hit all the beats of Game That Makes A Statement NGO praise.

What kind of weed did i hit?

I get that it's meant to be a metaphor for being a refugee, i.e. an experience that sucks, but that's no excuse to make the game an experience that sucks too.

Confusing gameplay, paper-thin analogy, trite story, crap music and visuals.

This game was both super weird, but also extremely blatant in its message and metaphors. It's like it both wanted to be an abstract art piece but also extremely literal commentary, and those two things don't really go together. The gameplay loop of try new weird thing, get confused about what the game wants from you, then go back and read a letter that tells you exactly what to do was... not particularly engaging. I really wish it just had more confidence in itself.

Some really powerful, great visuals but feels more like an interactive art piece than a game (no I cannot define the difference lol)