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How to Say Goodbye

How to Say Goodbye is a beautiful narrative puzzle game inspired by picture books. Reorganize the environment and solve puzzles to help a group of ghosts on their quest to finally move on.

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Developer
Florian Veltman, Baptiste Portefaix, ARTE France
Publisher
ARTE France
Release
November 3, 2022
3 years and 273 days ago
Steam Reviews
Very Positive180 reviews90.0%

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About the Game

THE JOURNEY OF A LITTLE GHOST

How to say Goodbye tells the story of someone who has recently been turned into a ghost, lost in an unfamiliar world populated by disoriented spirits.

In this narrative puzzle game, move the decor to help the characters escape the liminal world in which they are lost. Help them on their quest to move on and escape from the grasp of a mysterious Wizard.

A PUZZLE GAME BASED ON WORLD MANIPULATION

Overcome tricky grid-based puzzles to lead the ghosts onward and travel through more than 15 chapters, from your kitchen to the moon.

Solve numerous conundrums in a universe inspired by illustration and great classics of children's literature (Tomi Ungerer, Tove Jansson, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Maurice Sendak...)

A STRONG AND UNIQUE THEME

  • A poignant puzzle game that deals with grief with kindness and subtlety

  • Save your friends before they disappear forever

  • Guide the ghosts out of the strange world in which they are trapped

  • Meet various characters, help them find peace and mourn their own death

  • Unveil the secret of the Wizard and the Spleens, the misguided spirits that haunt the other side

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