![]() Here's A Space for the Unbound's launch trailer to show it in action. ![]() The rural town you jog around is both quaint and otherworldly, a handful of connected roads featuring the nostalgic everyday - food carts, convenience stalls, a couple of strolling locals - but standing up isolated against the bubblegum pixel-art skyboxes like old Western movie sets, two-dimensional and out of time. Availability: Out now on PC ( Steam, Epic, GOG), Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PS4, PS5Īfter a big and frankly traumatic prologue, which concludes with one of the most memorably upsetting first-person sequences I've experienced, A Space for the Unbound settles in as a kind of slice-of-life narrative adventure following Atma, a teenage boy at school in 90s Indonesia.A Space for the Unbound feels a lot, and it feels hard, and it's intoxicating as a result. With that teenage earnestness comes buckets of charm though and, more importantly, a genuine, raw sincerity. Following a group of teenagers through the difficulties of school life and beyond - beyond in space as much as time - it's appropriately awkward at times, rushing over-eagerly in some areas, dawdling for far too long in others and frequently figuring it out as it goes. ![]() ![]() Plenty of indie games deal with anxiety and depression, but few contain such raw and mighty anguish as A Space for the Unbound. Disparate parts pull together to form a beautiful game that's only more potent for its awkward adolescence. ![]()
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