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How We Know We're Alive – Adventure Game Review
How We Know We're Alive is a Adventure/Casual game from Motvind Studios AB, first launched in 14th March 2023.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 14+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes How We Know We're Alive Stand Out
Welcome to Härunga – a small industrial town in the bible belt of the mid–north of Sweden. You play as Sara, an aspiring writer who, after having been away for 10 years, returns home in order to investigate the tragic fate of her estranged best friend. The days grow short quickly this far up north – and the rain never seems to let up…
Lovingly crafted and richly animated, explore the melancholy atmosphere of a small town that time seemingly forgot. Meet old friends and enemies and piece together the mystery of what happened after your friendship tragically fell apart.
As in life, what you say will impact things in hidden ways and not everything may be as it seems. Who is telling whose truth and can you know the difference?
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, How We Know We're Alive is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th March 2023
Download & Availability
How We Know We're Alive is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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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:
This is so beautiful we cant even fathom to find the words to explain it.
The soundtrack and art is absolutely beautiful, and ofc above all else is the story. With out spoiling anything its about how our perspective can warp the truth and how we sometimes see what we want to see. While the entire game is only about an hour and a half long it is worth every second of it. Ive already replayed it three times at this point, it sticks with you. And this game is somehow almost unheard of so if you like this game as much as we did, please tell someone, we want to talk to more people about this game.
What a great little narrative! Exactly the kind of story our society needs right now, just jam packed with truth about our current moment. A stuck up / pink haired feminist type comes back to her small town from the big city on the 1 year anniversary of her childhood best friends death. She overlays all her modern misogyny onto the situation and develops a wild theory of her friends death that confirms all her incorrect views of the world, only to discover that like Jon Snowshe knows nothing, and that it wasnt her dead friend who chose the wrong path, but herself. Its short but contains a message so many young people need to absorb (as long as you play it to the end when she gets pied in the face) we saw some reviews on here of people saying this is just more woke garbage but they obviously didnt play to the end. We get that people are sick and tired of all the antitruth propaganda in all our movies/shows/games and are highly sensitive to it, and quick to just turn it off and leave a bad review at the first whiff of wokeness (its often deserving) but stick with this one to the end, it all blows up in her face and is highly highly satisfying.
The game is visually/sensory amazing and makes you feel involved with the story. But it is so short that we felt we were missing something. We just couldnt believe that it was over, like? It should have more development in the characters lives and personalities, it felt incomplete :(.
Interesting story, but game is very short, only about a half hour long.
The whole point of the game is to show that the main character who says stuff like Jesus loving freaks is in the wrong.
Played this game for about 10-15 minutes and its nothing but anti-Christianity. Every other sentence is Jesus Freaks, Bible thumpers, etc. Leans HEAVILY to the left side. Basically within those few minutes, it said Christianity is bad and forced the LGBT/abortion stuff nonstop. Just not our type of game and wouldve liked to have known this before paying for it. Deleted it and wont be finishing.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0
- Size: 422.07 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
- Developer: Motvind Studios AB
Last updated: 14th March 2023 | Genre: Adventure, Casual | Developer: Motvind Studios AB