The Word is Not the Thing
A experimental game where you play with your emotions, seeing if you use words to escape from a feeling. While exploring fear, your relationship to words, and the emotional effect they have on you, discover…
The Word is Not the Thing is an indie, released 1 November 2018 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Word is Not the Thing is
The Word is Not the Thing was released in 2018. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
A experimental game where you play with your emotions, seeing if you use words to escape from a feeling. While exploring fear, your relationship to words, and the emotional effect they have on you, discover what happens when you understand that the word is never the thing.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
The Word is Not the Thing launched on 1 November 2018, within three weeks of Red Dead Redemption 2, Return of the Obra Dinn, Battlefield V and Hitman 2.
Released around the same time: Red Dead Redemption 2, Return of the Obra Dinn, Battlefield V, Hitman 2.
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