Half Past Fate: Romantic Distancing

$5.99

Release Date:: Feb 14, 2021
Developer:: Serenity Forge
Publisher:: Way Down Deep
Platforms:: Windows Mac

Indie Casual Family Sharing Single-player

About This Game

When a pandemic puts the lockdown on a blooming relationship, will the new couple keep the romance alive, or will distance pull them apart?

Cozy up with their quarantine story and see if they’ll find a way to stay connected in the weirdest of times in this new episode of the Half Past Fate story.

Features:

Learn to love from afar through the charismatic 2.5D pixel-art style of Half Past Fate
Enjoy a charming and honest slice-of-life story set in all-too-familiar circumstances
Play from both sides of the new relationship and see how each of your lives have changed
Judge (or admire) each other’s home decor, peculiar roommates, and musical tastes
Explore in endearing detail the intimate environs of each other’s quarantined lives
Maybe figure out what the heck “defragging” does

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User Reviews

Overwhelmingly Negative

1 user reviews

Positive

User #930601 english

31 min at review

Not Recommended

[code]That was pretty disappointing.[/code] [b]Half Past Fate[/b] is a narrative game about two people meeting just before lockdown. I was pretty excited to play it, since my memories of 2020 are still pretty vivid and that's when I was in a long distance relationship. So I thought it would be cool to see a story similar to my own experience. [h2]The story[/h2] Our main characters, Stephen and Robin, seem to like each other, but they can't leave home because of the lockdown. They want to keep in touch, so they start videocalling and doing stuff together. Cute! [h2]Why I don't recommend this game[/h2] It's extremely short. I don't mind short games, but because of its length, there's basically no time to explore the conflict of the story. For the context: [spoiler]as the lockdown becomes less strict, Robin wants to meet in person. Stephen is afraid to leave the house since he doesn't want to get sick and also infect his older uncle.[/spoiler] That's a nice topic for the conflict, g...