Ice-Pick Lodge has announced that it will bring Know by Heart to To change. It will be available on March 9, 2023.
Know by Heart, an adventure game, is meant to offer “a deep and moving story about coming to terms with loss”. You can find more information in the following overview:
Know by Heart is a game about accepting loss. The plot, music, intuitive gameplay and atmospheric mini-games work together to weave the illusion of a brief return to childhood and inevitably growth, the feeling of time slipping through our fingers.
Players will be immersed in the quiet life of a Russian provincial town, where traces and echoes of the Soviet era can still be seen and heard.
Misha, the protagonist, is trapped in his monotonous work with no way out, until the day the routine is broken when the boy he has loved since school returns to town. For the first time in years, Misha finds hope to escape the boredom of her everyday life. A brief but tumultuous episode of village life intertwines with the story of a band of childhood friends who reunite. It’s up to them to travel back in time and rekindle their friendship, but their memories of the past and the bonds that unite them are threatened…
main characteristics
• ~5 hours of sentimental adventure
• The atmosphere of a post-Soviet provincial town at the beginning of the century
• An emotional plot with non-linear elements and multiple endings
• Game mechanics that represent the thoughts and memories of the protagonist.
• A collection of evocative mini-games
• Piano soundtrack composed in a modern neoclassical style
Take a closer look at Know by Heart with the trailer below.
The game will retail for $19.99 on the Switch eShop.