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Torn Away

Torn Away is an award winning interactive story with a unique blend of adventure games, side-scrollers, and cinematic first-person levels. Help little Asya find her way home in the middle of war.

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Developer
perelesoq
Publisher
perelesoq, Hawthorn Games
Release
September 29, 2023
2 years and 308 days ago
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Very Positive700 reviews92.7%

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About the Game



Torn Away is an interactive story about a girl torn away from home.

Cross all of Germany and Poland to get to the homeland and help Asya reunite with her family.

Along the way, you will find:

Levels in the spirit of classic adventure games

Remember, life was peaceful once, and brighter days still await you in the future.


"Touching" mini-games

See the world through the eyes of a girl who was forced to grow up painfully quick.


Platformer with stealth mechanics

Hide from soldiers and overcome obstacles in the harshest of weathers.


First-person cinematic levels

Put yourself in Asya's shoes and face the danger.




Will you be able to keep hope alive and return to your homeland?

Features:

  • Touching story inspired by the diaries of Soviet children about the hardships of wartime, told through the perspective of a little girl;
  • An unfairly forgotten theme of the fate of "Ostarbeiters" — people, who were forcibly deported from Eastern Europe to work in Nazi labor camps;
  • Visual language assembled from elements of socialist realism and modern French animation;
  • 3D levels stylized as 2D art;
  • Original soundtrack inspired by the music of Hayao Miyazaki's movies, French New Wave cinema and experimental electronic music.
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