Commune Corvidae

released on Sep 11, 2018

Returning home as the descendant of a long-deposed leader, you explore what has become of your family's old domain. Though the scars of your ancestors' influence remain, the community has turned away from the past toward a hopeful future.


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God I really wish that I connected with this more, because the idea of exploring a semi-post-apocalyptic society that's escaped the grips of fascism is a damn good one, and the short bits where the protagonist reflects on the propaganda that's stuck around as part of their pilgrimage absolutely hit. The thing for me is that this really feels like it's missing something for me to love the rest of it, because ngl the atmosphere kinda falls flat for me personally, which makes the very long glides in the open world that should be captivating just feel kinda tedious and empty and makes me wish that gliding to places was twice as quick (not helped by the soundtrack, while pretty, being extremely sparse outside a couple of places so any bits that could make me captivated by the journey vanish just as quickly as it enters). And the emptiness honestly continues to the towns as well, only housing about 2 people who are actually willing to talk to you and slightly point towards where you should go. And yeah the game does state that some people are wary of you due to being born as someone associated with fascism so that might be the intent, but in execution, idk, when some of those few who do talk to you feel little more than signposts that sometimes don't engage with the themes at all, it feels less like a thematic choice and more just not wanting to add any dialogue for most people. I hate to seem too negative on this, because the core idea is great and shines through every now and then, I just wish it was refined more.

(game 1 of me going through this list by selecting games at random)

Odd little exploration game. Extremely janky and taped together (I don't know if a game has ever seemed more Made in Unity than this), but offers some kinda neat exploration for a little while.

I'm generally not much of a fan of these atmospheric dialogue-minimal exploration/platformer games, and after about an hour (and after getting stuck in a hole) I felt I had seen enough. If you like the concept of gliding through big vistas though and you got it as part of a bundle there's no harm in giving it a go. Seems neat if you like that sorta thing, not really for me though.

Once I finally managed to figure out how I was supposed to go about my bird pilgrimage, I was able to witness the horrors of crow fascism appropriately