Play Dead! #3
A story about a band, and their strange life on the road, accompanied by a surprisingly lively dead dog.
Play Dead! #3 is an indie developed by Skelebun Studios, released 31 October 2021 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Play Dead! #3 is
Play Dead! #3 is an indie game developed by Skelebun Studios and released in 2021. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Ren'Py.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Corey, Kaleb, Brian, and Savannah make up an up-and-coming pop punk band, currently touring in a junky van that breaks down in the middle of nowhere, a little too close to a haunted house. A trip inside to look for help ends with them running out the door with an unexpected stowaway–the ghost of a small dog that once lived there. Kaleb somehow convinces the rest of them to keep the dog, which he names “Thief” after something Corey said when the mutt stole his hat in an attempt to play. As they’d been looking for a new band name anyway, they run with the theme and rebrand themselves as Stop, Thief! From there on out, however, things get exponentially weirder, as they suddenly seem to…
How it plays
It is played from a auditory perspective. Its themes are comedy, fantasy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Play Dead! #3 launched on 31 October 2021, within three weeks of Age of Empires IV, Forza Horizon 5, Unpacking and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.
Released around the same time: Age of Empires IV, Forza Horizon 5, Unpacking, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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