An underbaked adventure game about survivor's guilt and city/rural divides. Initially played after seeing some goofy interpretations of the ending as being an anti-woke parable or something, but it's just a hollow box of arguments that doesn't say anything more than what you come prepared to read.
At once a monologue against progressive politics and the dissolution of traditional family values, while also an attack on myopic leftists who would prefer to scratch backwards rural communities off the map. But really, it's neither of these, there is no clear politics expressed beyond "people in rural communities live full lives" which...yeah, true.
The pixel art is impressive in a technical, textureless way that I'd expect from a lo-fi beats stream. Horrible to see pixel art chasing representationalism but that's videogames, baby.
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Content warnings for How We Know We're Alive: suicide, parental death, accidental pregnancy
At once a monologue against progressive politics and the dissolution of traditional family values, while also an attack on myopic leftists who would prefer to scratch backwards rural communities off the map. But really, it's neither of these, there is no clear politics expressed beyond "people in rural communities live full lives" which...yeah, true.
The pixel art is impressive in a technical, textureless way that I'd expect from a lo-fi beats stream. Horrible to see pixel art chasing representationalism but that's videogames, baby.
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Content warnings for How We Know We're Alive: suicide, parental death, accidental pregnancy