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Vanakatu

A surreal story-driven game that uses puzzle-solving, turn based battling, and open world navigation to help Van Cat track down his evil uncle and put an end to his nefarious plans!

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Developer
Inga
Publisher
Inga Harutyunyan
Release
June 6, 2024
2 years and 57 days ago
Steam Reviews
Positive25 reviews84.0%

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About the Game



This is an open-world story about VAN CAT (that's his name, no affiliations with vehicles), a duduk player from a regular family, who tracks down his CULT-LEADING UNCLE through spacetime to talk him out of creating a WORLDWIDE DICTATORSHIP!!!

Explore three surreal, immersive worlds swirling with music, light and color, inspired by the Ottoman Empire, Soviet Armenia and modern day Armenia to rescue your best friend, talk some sense to your weird, weird uncle, and destroy his time machine.

This Game Includes:
  • Unique visuals by the developer herself
  • Beautiful music
  • Sunlight and other cute lighting to make it feel like you're actually outside and touching grass
  • Battling mechanics
  • Puzzle solving, using pattern recognition to unlock doors and find hidden keys...
  • Open world exploration, I don't want to control you :D

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