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Know By Heart

Platform(s): Nintendo Switch, PC
Genre: Adventure
Developer: Ice-Pick Lodge
Release Date: March 9, 2023

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'Know By Heart' Comes To Nintendo Switch In March - Trailer

by Rainier on Feb. 10, 2023 @ 12:00 a.m. PST

Childhood friends reunite after spending a long time apart, revisiting old memories and rekindling their friendship. However, something beyond their control will ruin this reunion.

Know by Heart is a game about accepting loss. The plot, the music, the intuitive gameplay and atmospheric mini-games work together to weave an illusion of briefly returning to one’s childhood and inevitably growing up, the feeling of time slipping through our fingers.

Players will be immersed into the quiet life of a provincial Russian town, where traces and echoes of the Soviet era can still be seen and heard.

Misha, the protagonist, is stuck in his monotonous, dead-end job, until one day the routine is shattered as his school crush returns to town. For the first time in years Misha regains hope of escaping the ennui of his daily life. A brief but tumultuous episode of the town’s life is interwoven with the story of a gang of childhood friends coming back together.

It’s up to them to journey down memory lanes and rekindle their friendship, but their memories of the past and the very bonds between them become threatened...

Key Features:

  • ~5 hours of sentimental adventure
  • The atmosphere of a post-Soviet provincial town at the turn of the century
  • An emotional plot with non-linear elements and several endings
  • Game mechanics representing thoughts and memories of the protagonist
  • A collection of evocative mini-games
  • Piano soundtrack composed in modern neoclassical style

Currently available for PC (Steam), Know By Heart is coming to Nintendo Switch on March 9, 2023.


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