Across the Grooves
Across the Grooves is an interactive graphic novel for PC/Mac/Linux, set in a magical-realism universe, where your decisions affect the destiny of Alice, the main character, drastically changing her reality…
Across the Grooves is an adventure developed by Nova-Box, released 17 June 2020 on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Across the Grooves is
Across the Grooves is an adventure game developed by Nova-Box and released in 2020. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Alice lives an uneventful life. She’s in a long term relationship, has a stable office job and a nice apartment in the center of Bordeaux. One day, Ulysse, her ex-lover, comes back into her life through an old vinyl record she receives in the mail. When she puts it for a spin on turntable, she is thrown back into her own past, forced to relive old events. When she comes back to the present, her reality has changed. Determined to bring her life back on track, Alice packs up and embarks on a hunt across Europe, following the tracks of Ulysse while trying to uncover the origins of the record. However, her journey gradually turns into a quest of self-discovery as she explores new parallel…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Across the Grooves launched on 17 June 2020, within three weeks of The Last of Us Part II, Fortnite, Valorant and Desperados III. It arrived 3 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Last of Us Part II, Fortnite, Valorant, Desperados III.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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