🪫⚰️📓 First Impressions Galatea
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solo_knightFirst Impressions: Galatea
What is it?
A solo journalling game. You were made to be perfect; and you’re navigating your (un) life.
Galatea is a solo journaling RPG about bearing the
weight of unrealistic expectations. It features themes
of narcissism, controlling behavior, co-dependence,
helplessness, despair, self-mutilation, and suicide.
Is it playable out of the box?
Possibly. I did, as instructed, not read beyond the introduction.
Amendments:
?
Tools
A deck of playing cards or a deck of tarot cards (the gameplay will be slightly different), a jenga tower.
Price:
$12
Verdict
🪫 Very draining
⚰️ This can get dark
📓 Journalling Game
Introspection on dark themes including suicide. I think y’all can work out why I did not want to engage.
This sounds as if it might provide an intense introspective experience and go deep into philosophical questions; this game sounds worth engaging with for people in the right mindset.
I am not that person, particularly not at this point in time. I feel a game like this deserves to be taken seriously; I do not want to skim it. If I engage with it, I want to bring my whole self and take it seriously and think about each answer.
And thus, I put this game aside into a ‘review when brain’ folder. It feels like something the creator put a lot of thought into. (I could be wrong).
What is it?
A solo journalling game. You were made to be perfect; and you’re navigating your (un) life.
Galatea is a solo journaling RPG about bearing the
weight of unrealistic expectations. It features themes
of narcissism, controlling behavior, co-dependence,
helplessness, despair, self-mutilation, and suicide.
Is it playable out of the box?
Possibly. I did, as instructed, not read beyond the introduction.
Amendments:
?
Tools
A deck of playing cards or a deck of tarot cards (the gameplay will be slightly different), a jenga tower.
Price:
$12
Verdict
🪫 Very draining
⚰️ This can get dark
📓 Journalling Game
Introspection on dark themes including suicide. I think y’all can work out why I did not want to engage.
This sounds as if it might provide an intense introspective experience and go deep into philosophical questions; this game sounds worth engaging with for people in the right mindset.
I am not that person, particularly not at this point in time. I feel a game like this deserves to be taken seriously; I do not want to skim it. If I engage with it, I want to bring my whole self and take it seriously and think about each answer.
And thus, I put this game aside into a ‘review when brain’ folder. It feels like something the creator put a lot of thought into. (I could be wrong).
