Summerland - A Free Narrative Game About Morality (Review)

Summerland is a free, narrative video game experience (similar to other walking simulators) that encourages you to reconsider what you deem right and wrong. In this video review, I dissect its commentary on morality and determine whether or not its worth playing.
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About Summerland: Summerland is a first-person narrative game about morality and the afterlife.
You take control of Matthew, a detective reliving the events of his past, being questioned on his morals along the way. In every door lies another memory, and every memory unlocks another door.
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[@goodnightgirl]

I just finished Summerland and went to see what other people thought of it, but stumbled upon this hidden gem of a review.
I absolutely agree the way that your choices don't need to "matter" in-game. Since the way you decide on these philosophical ideas frames how you interpret the story events. Stuff like: "is Matthew born selfish or does his societal power encourage him to do these actions?". It got me really thinking how he got put in these situations, even if his decision making is short sighted. Like, after Anna dies does he have nobody to confide in? Is there a pride that's keeping him from reaching out? And what circumstances got him to contact Charlie, but not warn his own police force about it?
I can only guess to gey my answers, but it's cool to have this outline that sets up these kind of questions where I would've glanced past the story if it was presented linearly. Really good stuff from a solo dev's passion project.

[@ReginaldWrites]

Thanks for your in-depth comment! Summerland was definitely a worthwhile experience and I'm glad someone else felt the same moral line of questioning.