Season: A letter to the future

Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5
Genre: Adventure
Developer: Scavengers Studio
Release Date: Jan. 31, 2023

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'Season: A letter to the future' Comes to PS4, PS5 And PC This Fall, Shows Off Gameplay - Trailer

by Rainier on June 2, 2022 @ 4:37 p.m. PDT

Season: A letter to the future is a third-person atmospheric adventure bicycle road trip game.

You play as a young woman from a secluded village exploring the world by bike for the first time, collecting artifacts and memories before a cataclysm washes everything away.

Season is a quest to discover a new world; one unknown yet familiar. You will be immersed in different cultures as they live their last moments. Document, photograph, and record life as you find it, while you still can. Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and let yourself be carried away on the extraordinary journey of Season

Through a solitary bicycle journey, form your own memories, your own vision of the world around you.

Your goal?

Protect these treasures from being forgotten. Your quest will lead you to discover a new world; unknown, yet familiar. You will be immersed in different societies that will make you discover the mysteries of the world of Season; a surreal version of the mid-twentieth century, where thousands of years have passed without any progress.

Find out what caused the last collapse and what might cause the next one...

The gameplay of Season: A Letter to the Future focuses on exploring, recording, meeting people, and unravelling the strange world around you. At any point, you can hop off your bike and equip a tool from your bag. Each captures a different layer; sounds and music, art and architecture, voices of old people, vanishing religious practices, the traces of seasons long past. Your tools help you peel back these layers until you’re able to grasp the culture, history, and ecology underneath everything. 

Your camera can capture anything you see. Your microphone can capture and playback anything you hear, through directional sound recording. This action also prompts moments of reflection and inquiry as you understand your surroundings, sparking thoughts and investigation from Estelle. Use these recordings of the present to unlock answers for the future.

Your time spent with other people is crucial. You help them through moments of quiet crisis. In their lives, the change coming to the world is not abstract, it is immediate. They are trying to navigate, to survive, to find a way to live. You help them. You remember them. The choices you make reverberate and the importance of what you’re doing becomes increasingly tangible. Showing your recordings to these characters you meet can also yield useful pieces of information or a moment of connection. 

It all comes together in your journal, a letter to the future, where you assemble the fragments of the season into a whole. Through snapshots and recordings, you build an evolving expression of your own perspective on what you’ve seen and done on your trip. Via the act of recording, your exploration and investigation are rewarded throughout the story in surprising ways. 

With the PlayStation 5 DualSense controller, you will feel the terrain under your tires, thanks to the controller’s haptics. When you’re cycling, you feel resistance in the controller’s adaptive triggers when pedalling up steep hills, and then enjoy a relaxing coast downhill. You won’t have to stick to the main road: cycling off the beaten path will lead you to hidden places and new discoveries. 

Your quest leads you to know the world of Season as you search for meaning for yourself, and for the reader of your journal. You do your best to answer the big questions: what is this season? And why is it ending?

Key Features:

  • Experience a touching story as you witness the last breath of different cultures
  • Meet a diverse cast of characters on your way, who will change the course of your story
  • Explore a beautiful and poetic fantasy world
  • Collect artifacts, make recordings, and discover the secrets of the world of Season
  • Wind your way through stunning landscapes on your bicycle

Season is coming to PS4, PS5 and PC (Steam) in Fall 2022.


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