Wide Ocean Big Jacket is an adventure developed by Turnfollow, released 4 February 2020 on Nintendo Switch, iOS, Linux and Mac.
What Wide Ocean Big Jacket is
Wide Ocean Big Jacket is an adventure game developed by Turnfollow and released in 2020. It was published by Tender Claws. It is available on Nintendo Switch, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
** INDEPENDENT GAMES FESTIVAL 2020 - FINALIST - EXCELLENCE IN NARRATIVE ** Take part in a classic camping trip: Roast hot dogs on the fire, go birdwatching, tell ghost stories, grab a beverage from the cooler and do cartwheels on the beach. WOBJ is a short story game including 20 chapters, 4 playable characters, 10,000 words of dialog and 8 explorable areas, all rendered in a beautiful 2D/3D art style. Playtime: 60-90 minutes (like watching a good movie with friends or curling up to read a book)
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Wide Ocean Big Jacket holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 7 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Wide Ocean Big Jacket launched on 4 February 2020, within three weeks of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Dreams, Besiege and Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot. 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: Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Dreams, Besiege, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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