Four students create a distressing point-and-click about domestic violence — Come Back: Chapter 1 Steam update #251855

The French indie studio Team NoLan, composed of four freshly out-of-school students, has just released the game Come Back: Chapter 1 for PC, Mac and Linux. It’s available now on Steam, Itch.io and GameJolt. This myst-like tackles the issue of domestic violence by telling the story of a person who wakes up on a beach with absolutely no idea on where he is. He finds out that his partner had left him puzzles and notes everywhere with indications about where to find her. “We wanted to do a game about the issue of domestic violence to try to raise awareness on the subject, but we also wanted a game that is fun and interesting to play.” said Edwin Haragova, game designer and co-founder of Team NoLan. “To resolve this touchy equation we decided to tell the story through the prism of someone in a dissociative fugue state, so you can enter deeper in his blocked mind by solving puzzles and reading...