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Father and Son – Family Game Review
Father and Son is a Family/Travel/Adventure game from Associazione Culturale TuoMuseo – Impresa Sociale, first launched in 18th April 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 235+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Father and Son Stand Out
Start an exciting and timeless journey between Naples, Pompeii and Ancient Egypt, spanning different historical periods.
The adventure takes off from the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, a cultural institution housing some of humanity’s greatest artefacts and treasures.
What begins as the story of a son who never knew his father becomes a universal and ageless tale, with the present and the past making up the setting for Michael’s travels. Seek for yourself the beauties of Naples, experience the last hours of life in Pompeii before Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, and explore the ordinary day-to-day life in Ancient Egypt. The past is what makes our present real.
Completion time: 50-60 minutes. Some sections are unlocked by checking in at the Archaeological Museum of Naples, publisher of the game.
The Father and Son Soundtrack is available for download on the official site.
This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Father and Son is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 26th May 2020
Recent improvements include:
Translations of the texts in German and Japanese have been added.
Download & Availability
Father and Son is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Father and Son on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We absolutely loved this game, it was the perfect length, we think it took us an hour to get through and we loved it. The art was amazing and we loved the 2D/3rd person perspective. All the stories are so sweet and amazing, the old man scene was probably the hardest decision but we still loved it, we cant say it enough. Please play it! We would love to see what happens next in the story.
This is a awesome game Im speechless.
Visual and music are both so beautiful. We connect with the story instantly. Also remind us of our trip to Naples and Pompeii.
This game is so good, the art style and everything is just amazing.
This game has so much story and is worth playing through once.
So sweet and beautiful. Im glad to play it, we feel more relax after this. If you want to change your sad mood and feelings you have to play it. It bring you happinesse, forgiveness and satisfaction.
We were quite amazed by this game, The Art, The transitions, Everything about it was beautiful. The fact that its a full game, No needed In app purchases To play the full game. They gave you a full game that was sincerely amazing! Im quite amazed, Very amazed. Though, we were kinda sad when it ended. It was such a beautiful game and it had to come to an end, but oh well. A beautiful game is a beautiful game.
It was honestly perfect and we loved every part of it and we really cried at parts Ill love this game to the bottom of our heart and now this memory is stuck with us forever.
We lived the story this game was our best game of all time on ios.
It's a really pretty story. You could finish it in one go, it took us a little less than an hour with one break. It's a little slow so if you're not into that, you might not like it, they do add transportation for you. It's a very touching story and we recommend anyone struggling with lost love or a gone parent to read it because we think it'll invoke the most feeling. The locked museum features aren't important and are really unneeded for the story, there's only two that Ive seen.
This app conveys a story travels throughout history! It shows a point of view from the hopeful and the helpless. We highly highly highly recommend.
Honestly one of our top 10 favorite indie app games ever. Its poignant, existential, and completely free, which seems unbelievable given the visuals and storytelling?? Sometimes when we try these story-based games they move really, really slowly and arent super accessible, but this one just throws you into the story. It might make you cry, it will definitely make you smile, and it could very well provoke intense dramatic feelings regarding the place of our lives in the universe. Its also the perfect lengthnot too short, like some other story-based games, but you can also finish it in one relatively short sitting. Just a perfect piece of storytelling. (Its ridiculous to be a stickler on this given the absolute beauty of this story, but in the English version theres just one typo in one of the letter sections at the endit says time has past instead of time has passedalthough this could be a pretty great intentional word play? Honestly we dont even care about the typo everything else was utterly flawless. We are in such awe.).
Us ourselves is still young though we have a dream to write and make movies and stories. We would recommend making a script for this, this game is very creative and inspiring that it is restored as such a beautiful story in our mind.
We deeply enjoyed this game. It was so beautiful and heartwarming. We felt like we were watching a movie or reading a novel. We were so into the storyline that time flew by quickly. This game made us feel so many emotions. We were just so awed by this game. The art style was so aesthetically pleasing to the eye. It made us want to start painting and writing poetry again.
We love the part where we have to there in real life to get an option to the game haha amazing story though.
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We love this game and all but when we go to the room where the closet is and we want to change the clothes he has on it says something about the Naples real life or something like that any who we think they should explain what that is but other then that the game is perfect.
Why is the move button, the most used button in the absolute corner of the screen its an absolute chore to use it and incredibly hard to hold the phone using it, make it bigget, pther than than the game looks well drawn.
We like the idea of the story, but unfortunately we can no longer move forward. Ive gotten stuck at the part where the guy meets a girl after his last day in the museum. Unfortunately none of the mechanics previously shown are working to make him stand or move. What we saw of the game was beautifully put together, though even if we could have played more (if we hadnt gotten stuck), we wouldnt have been able to play the whole thing. You have to actually visit the museum in Naples to complete the game, which is something most people financially cannot do unless they live in or near Naples (or at the very least in the same country). Overall this game was very frustrating, because it had so much potential but fell short due to glitches and our inability to teleport.
Beautiful art but its SOOOOO slow-moving. Lost our attention pretty quickly- you might consider adding an option to walk a little faster.
We were actually at the MANN (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli) when we downloaded and started playing the game. Right at the start it said it was checking the GPS to unlock parts of the game if we were in the museum that didnt work. We even tried using the museums WiFi. That didnt help. The app never asked for permission to use the location services so it was likely due to a bug in the iOS version as we do have location services enabled. Too bad.
If you enjoy watching characters slooooowly walk around and have sloooow, awkward, misspelled dialogue while you try to figure out what exactly youre supposed to do, this is the game for you. Despite the slowness, it gets to the end pretty quickly.
The plot line for this game is fantastic all in itself, but it cannot go without saying that the art for this game is one of the best Ive ever since especially for an IOS narrative game. Playing this game was such an experience and we would 100% recommend it to anyone who wants to delve deep into a short and great narrative story.
Please please can we get a knee game like this. This is one of our favorite apps on the phone. We have replayed this so many times.
This game is awesome we like the storyline where is shows what happened in the Fathers view and you can switch to normal, anyways part 2 would be awesome we would the first that would want to play it. By the way you dont have to make part 2 you could make another game like this, just saying.
We downloaded the game by accident. Then we began playing and immediately it pulled us in. The artwork and transitions between time periods is breathtaking. We loved the themes and subjects it explored. Im so happy we downloaded the app. 5/5 stars for sure.
Best game we have played in a while. The mix of history and the present was visually pleasing and we absolutely loved the choices for the speech.
This game is so criminally underrated. We havent even finished playing yet and we just had to write a review. The graphics are beautiful, the storyline is unique for a game but so realistic and relatable. The creativity is just.. Wow. We hope to see more of the creators work down the line and we hope they get their flowers for this masterpiece of a game.
Nice slow moving game. We love how you can have a glimpse of the history of the art, and its heartfelt story. Overall, its a beautiful app and has an amazing story.
We absolutely loved this game!! It had quite amazing graphics especially for the backgrounds and attention to detail is prominent. The game was a bit short and we finished it within 2 days about 2 hours of gameplay maybe. Also the walking mechanism is a bit odd and we might have preferred something that could be used with one finger to control where the character went.
The creators of this game must be artist themselves. That was artistic enjoyable lovely journey . We enjoyed every moment.. The places .. The art.. The music. Fantastic. The only problem we think is that the game is short in story. We finish it about 1 hour. We wanted the story go on an on… We loved it.. Felt emotional .. This game is a real touching story.
This game was excellent. The music, the purpose, the game play.. Everything was great. Definitely recommend playing it.
This is a beautiful work of art and passion. This is very underrated and that is criminal the game music is incredible and awesome. The team behind this game earned 10/10, this is why we still Love people who still have their passion in making video games this also reminds us that game are a art form.
That was honestly breathtaking. The art style is beautiful and the storyline is charming! Though, we felt extremely bad when we had to take money from that poor man whom we totally forgot the name of. Yes, we cannot get over that. The way one was able to make choices in the game was very amazing! We also absolutely loved how you can see the lives of other people while you play the main character (hope that made sense). We totally recommend this game to others as it is very heart touching and gorgeous. We dont see why this game does have more people checking it out! It is amazing for a free game.
Just as the title says, this game is SO SOO good, but not seeing it in any of the charts makes us really sad. Most games you see hit the charts are just not as well-made as this. We can feel how much love the people behind this had placed into it. The art is very simple, but in a good simple! AND oh man we LOVE story-driven games, it's so hard to find any good ones that just really makes you feel emotions! Many other developers can take a lot from this game. Plus the animations and movements in this game is phenomenal. This game makes you go travel, it makes you go to the Naples Museum, not only do you have an amazing game, you also get to appreciate the art. We may not have went there yet, but we hope we get the chance to now! This game is absolutely incredible! We hope to see more from the creators, and we know they won't disappoint.
We love the art style and how everything takes place. Its just beautiful.
We love the game! We just wish it was in English so we can understand whats going on. Can u please and English.
This game is very good and interesting but we hated how short it was anyway, again it is a very good game.
Father and son is a beautiful game. The graphics and imagery is stunning, and so is the music. One problem we had with the game was the controls. You have to hold in a specific spot at an inconvenient place in the bottom of the screen. It makes it hard to move.
Ths story line of this app is really sweet and nice but the way you read/play the story is kind of boring. We are pretty disappointed.
Thought this was an app on father tips. Not at all. Game is basic n dull. Just deleted it.
So 'sorry' we are not wealthy and have zero opportunity or chance to visit a museum in another country, much less another continent. Why would you create something that is engaging and then suddenly mocks because the user can't physically be there in order to move forward?! You could have done so much more to introduce and inspire and instead you crushed a story to a physical parameter that 99% of the population will never experience. Not just dissatisfied and disappointing, frankly it's dumb. It does nothing to advance or inspire. 'Deleted'.
We don't write reviews on the AppStore unless complaining but that was a beautiful app. The story line the music and the scenery all just fell together very well. But what we really love about it is that the intrinsic emotion of an artist was really brought out. It showed how artists create a lot of beauty but they also face a lot of heartbreak and sadness. Although we wish the main story was longer, we assume that this app would need more funding. We hope people get this app and support it so the story can be added to. Again, we cannot put in words how creative and great this app is.
You need to tap low right or left in the house this parts are black.
Father & Son has a unique storyline about mending a broken relationship between an archeologist (father) and artist (son) after the son learns of his dad's passing and final wishes. The gameplay is relaxed and easy. It's mostly two button controls with some objects to press in between. Other reviewers think the left/right controls are broken — it is just difficult to know where to precisely press because they cannot be seen on screen past the initial tutorial. We were able to play the game, but we had to do some "screen mashing" to guess where the left and right controls were at times. We think the developers were trying not to detract from the game by showing on screen controls, but it's clearly not working in this case. It would help to have a settings menu that allows users to toggle the controls on/off. Or perhaps they need to widen the field where the invisible controls are pressed (or let users do it from the settings). We also did not see a way to return to the main screen and save our progress, so we were forced to play through as much as we could (see below) since we were worried that closing the game would erase everything. The reason we took away one star isn't because of what we said above. To us, those are minor details that can be easily addressed with an update. Father & Son is evidently a game that's trying to get people to visit the museum that's featured within the game, which is located in Italy, by unlocking the content via GPS to prove that you're on location. We think that's a great concept, as we live in NYC and love to take advantage of our local museums. However, there are worldwide players like us who won't be able to go to Italy any time soon — and that means we can't progress in the game. The developer needs to create a way for non-Italian players to unlock the rest of the game, whether sharing the game on social media, IAP as a donation to the museum, and/or by visiting a nearby museum that is similar to the one in the story (we.e. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, etc.). While we were able to reach the end of the game regardless, there were several wings of the museum that we could not explore — and so, we felt like we didn't totally understand the full message that the father was sending to his son as there was likely crucial details in those wings. (And we hope we won't have to start all over again once you update the game — it would be nice if we could select the chapter from which to continue.) Moreover, we're left wondering whether the story would change if we would play again and choose to say other things to the characters. It would help if this would be made clearer. Overall, we love the game. It just needs a bit more refining and polish in the above areas. We're looking forward to an update. We'd even love to see a sequel and a prequel! :-).
The game is fun and we don't see a problem with the Controls but we hate that you have to go to the museum!!! Because we live in the America and the museum is in Italy so it can't get the other features that make the game FUN!!!! It Ended to soon in the game!!! Please fix this museum.
We absolutely love the art style, the music, and the beginning of this story. We wish we could play it, but sadly the left and right controls don't work. When your character sits down, he is stuck there forever. You cant move. We really hope they fix this game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.5.1
- Size: 171.85 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Associazione Culturale TuoMuseo – Impresa Sociale
Last updated: 26th May 2020 | Genre: Family, Travel | Developer: Associazione Culturale TuoMuseo – Impresa Sociale