The Almost Gone
The Almost Gone is a mystery point-and-click adventure where a young girl's spirit looks for a way out in a magical afterlife. It is a mysterious narrative exploration game set in a one second world where a…
The Almost Gone is an adventure developed by Happy Volcano, released 5 May 2020 on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS and Mac.
What The Almost Gone is
The Almost Gone is an adventure game developed by Happy Volcano and released in 2020. It was published by Playdigious. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity 2017.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Trapped between life and death, frightened and alone, you must unravel the dark and poignant truth that led to your fate. Dig beneath the beautifully rendered façades and interiors of an ordinary suburban lifestyle to discover a breathtaking tale crafted by an award-winning author. Piece together this compelling story by revealing objects and memories, decipher these clues and reveal more of the story and its dark secrets. From your own home to eerily deserted streets, beautiful apartment blocks to sinister abandoned hospitals, you must search forensically for clues. Each new reveal takes you closer to the life you once had, to the people and places that surrounded you, in your seemingly…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Almost Gone holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 3 points below the year average.
What it launched against
The Almost Gone launched on 5 May 2020, within three weeks of Deep Rock Galactic, Streets of Rage 4, Tetris Effect: Connected and Mafia II: Definitive Edition. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Deep Rock Galactic, Streets of Rage 4, Tetris Effect: Connected, Mafia II: Definitive Edition.
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