Linda & Joan is a narrative adventure game by Russell Quinn, based on the worst year of his life, when his mother and grandmother, the two remaining members of his immediate family, died within a month of each other.
## About This Game
Linda & Joan is a narrative adventure game by Russell Quinn, based on the
worst year of his life, when his mother and grandmother, the two remaining
members of his immediate family, died within a month of each other. It is
scheduled for release in 2022.
You can’t change what’s coming. But you can choose how to deal with it.
Players experience the events from the perspectives of Russell, Linda, and
Joan through exploration, conversation, and tasks designed to give emotional
insight into the themes of caregiving, dying, bereavement, and homeland.
What sets Linda & Joan apart from other branching-narrative experiences is
that while the player has many choices to make, nothing can change the core
events that follow–there is only one ending.
However, actions, dialogue choices, and task completion, do affect the
characters’ perception of events. By spending time with happier memories,
taking care of themselves, and choosing the right things to say to each other,
the characters–and therefore the player–will find themselves able to deal
with the impossible.
The characters’ emotional states will be graphically represented in the game.
The player will have to carefully balance the needs of the characters to
progress, sometimes requiring difficult zero-sum tradeoffs.
These mechanisms attempt to mirror the real-life feeling of being powerless in
the face of looming trauma, when you realize that no decision can affect the
outcome, but you can affect how you and others feel about it.
Even when life’s story feels like it’s on rails, we still have some power over
our own realities. There is still room for dignity, compassion, honesty. For
fear and for love. There is a time for self-care. There is a time for duty.
The choices we make will define the memories we hold for the rest of our
lives.
This will be the worst year of your life. Can you survive it?
Minimum System Requirements | ||
CPU | x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support | |
OS | Windows 7 | |
Direct X | Version 10 |
Minimum System Requirements | ||
CPU | x64 architecture with SSE2 | |
OS | macOS Sierra 10.12+ | |
Graphics Card | Metal-capable Intel and AMD GPUs |