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Some Distant Memory

You play as the Professor, on a mission to find the sunken city of Houston. Things have been getting worse for the few surviving colonies of Earth as their resources dwindle and a corrupting algae bloom…

13 November 2019

Some Distant Memory is an adventure developed by Galvanic Games, released 13 November 2019 on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Some Distant Memory is

Some Distant Memory is an adventure game developed by Galvanic Games and released in 2019. It was published by Way Down Deep. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

300 years after the world ended, hope of recovering the past is all but gone. You're tasked with finding the sunken city of Houston by ARORA, a powerful AI capable of rebuilding memories from left behind artifacts, in hopes of finding answers before it's too late.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are mystery and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Some Distant Memory launched on 13 November 2019, within three weeks of Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds and Persona 5 Royal. It arrived 2 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds, Persona 5 Royal.

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When did Some Distant Memory come out?
Some Distant Memory was released on 13 November 2019 for Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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