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https://elliotherriman.itch.io/cover-me-in-leaves
I'd been looking through some of the itch.io bundles I had bought years ago and found this (more specifically, this one is from the Queer Games Bundle 2021).
10mg is a collection of 10 minute long games, a tiny dose of something special.
Cover Me In Leaves is an experimental work of interactive horror fiction, about bright minds, and the end of all things. Fresh out of high school, with no prospects or aspirations, you've remained here in your small town. Everyone you knew and loved has moved on for better things. You're alone. So you get your first tattoo.
And then the trees start calling.
Yes. But do I have much to say about it? Not really. It's a very short "art game". It has a theme and it presents the theme.
Themes of isolation, entropy, and the death of small town America.
If the theme sounds appealing, go and experience it. Presentation is good and the game makes you emotional in the moment, and it may be memorable if you are not familiar with such stories, but as for me, I did not actually remember what had happened in the game 2 months after playing it. I replayed it just now, before writing this, but my opinion hasn't changed between then and now. *8/10*, good, worth experiencing, probably not mind-blowing.
The game is freely available as a browser game, and if you'd paid for it (through the itch.io bundle or otherwise), you also get a Windows install. I did not bother with installing the Windows version considering, well, the whole "10 minute game" thing. It's a text-based game, Firefox handled it just fine.
Game finished 2023-07-03 - 10m
(...and then replayed again just before writing this)
gardenapple - 2023-09-14