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The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother

The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral. The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer's psyche and discover the…

10 July 2020

The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother is an adventure developed by Somi, released 10 July 2020 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother is

The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother is an adventure game developed by Somi and released in 2020. It was published by indienova. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral. The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer's psyche and discover the contradictions that define him.
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are drama. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother launched on 10 July 2020, within three weeks of The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima, Fortnite and Carrion.

Released around the same time: The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima, Fortnite, Carrion.

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When did The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother come out?
The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother was released on 10 July 2020 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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