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The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother

The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral. The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer’s psyche and discover the contradictions that define him.

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Somi
Publisher
Somi, indienova
Release
July 10, 2020
6 years and 24 days ago
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Very Positive276 reviews81.2%

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The Wake is the last of game developer Somi’s “Guilt Trilogy,” consisting of Replica and Legal Dungeon.


Perhaps it means my life simply boils down to this: “Everything I say is a lie.”



The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral—a record of the roots of guilt, and the memories and emotions that chain together three generations of a family.

The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer’s psyche and discover the contradictions that define him.

Explore a generational curse that has swallowed a man and his life.
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