Know by heart… (NSP, XCI) ROM

Know by heart… is a sentimental adventure game that explores the theme of loss through the story of childhood friends who reunite after spending time apart. Set in a post-Soviet provincial town, players will journey down memory lanes and rekindle old friendships while facing the inevitability of growing up and moving on.

The game features an emotional plot, non-linear gameplay, atmospheric mini-games, and a modern neoclassical piano soundtrack, offering players a brief but immersive experience that will tug at their heartstrings.

This game is also about take-up loss. The plot, the music, the intuitive gameplay, and atmospheric mini-games work together to weave an illusion of briefly returning to one’s childhood and inevitably growing up, the feeling of time slipping over our combats.

As you play you’ll will be joined into the quiet life of a provincial Russian town, where traces and echoes of the Soviet era can still be seen and heard.

Misha, the protagonist, is trapped in his monotonous, dead-end job until one day the routine is shattered as his school crush returns to town. For the first time in years, Misha regains his wish of escaping the ennui of his daily life.

A brief but tumultuous episode of the town’s life is interwoven with the tale of a gang of childhood friends coming back together. It depends on them to adventure down memory lanes and rekindle their friendship, but their memories of the past and the very bonds between them set off threatened.

FEATURES

• 5 hours of sentimental adventure.
• The atmosphere of a post-Soviet provincial town at the turn of the century.
• An emotional plot with non-linear elements and several endings.
• Game mechanics represent the thoughts and memories of the protagonist.
• A collection of evocative mini-games.
• The piano soundtrack was composed in a modern neoclassical style.