Dyscourse

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Summary

Dyscourse is an interactive choice-based narrative adventure game where you journey through a stylized world of choice and consequence. You play as Rita, an unfortunate art school grad turned barista, who is now stuck on a desert island with a crew of oddball travelers after a plane crash. That last choice you just made? It may end up being integral to your group’s survival, or it may lead you down a path to murder and cannibalism.

Stories in Dyscourse are emergent, and choices made in the game directly tie to the survival or downfall of the group. As players get to know their fellow castaways and make critical and interpersonal decisions, drama dynamically unfolds, and your choices author your own unique story.

We've designed Dyscourse so that players will end up with vastly different stories forged from their choices - everyone’s playthrough will have a unique story to tell. With over 120,000 words and many hours of replayable content, each playthrough allows players to explore more of the overall “story space” and learn more about the crash and their fellow survivors. There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ choices and endings to Dyscourse - how to best survive the island is a decision left up to the player. Choose wisely.


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Dyscourse Reviews & Ratings

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Review by Bumblebugbee [user]
May 12, 2016

You wake up on the beach after your plane crashes. You band together with five other survives who make you their impromptu leader. TheYou wake up on the beach after your plane crashes. You band together with five other survives who make you their impromptu leader. The choices you have to make have some major consequences in this dire fight for survival. Their lives rest in your hands. Do you have aptitude to make the right choices to save everyone?This game is all about cause and effect. When a boar steals what little food you have do you try to hunt it down or stay put? When the storm threatens your shelter should you make do or wander blindly into the night and hope to find something better? Even choosing who to feed with your limited food supply is a tough choice. Maybe someone is injured and you feel badly and want to feed them. On the other hand, maybe you give the food to a more fit candidate to give them some energy to help you forage. Maybe you just decide based on their attitudes and personalities.The story and the level of emotional attachment in this game is through the roof. The characters all feel so real. You have Teddy, a super paranoid tech wiz, who thinks this is all one big planned conspiracy. Jolene, a demanding yet surprising optimistic women, who is losing interest in her husband and fellow survivor George. Then theirs Steve and Garret, a depressed office worker and a gaming addict. Rarely have I found it this easy to remember characters names, its just their personalities and so strong and believable you really feel connected to them as time goes by.The art and sound effects are really unique and fit the game so well. The game has a really pretty, colorful and slightly cartoony, paper-craft look to it. The story can get dark at times and I'm glad its not too realistic looking, I feel that could have made it even more gloomy than it already is. The characters all make funny and super charming voices when the talk. You can read what they say but all you hear is them mumble with their different accents that fit their personalities perfectly.This game isn't very long, in fact it only takes a little over an hour to complete. Please don't not write it off just for that, for what plays in an hour feels like days as you immerse your self in this game. Not to mention there are so many different paths to take the replay value is very high. Watching my sister play and make different choices vastly changed the direction of the game and let me see lots of things I didn't in my play-though. If you enjoy the TellTale games like the Walking Dead or the difficult choices likes those in the Mass Effect series I believe you'll really enjoy this game. So tell me, are you ready to step up and make the though choices?

60
Review by grrrr [user]
January 31, 2016

Graphics is fine. Music is also good. I would be probably bored if it took more time, but it was quite fine as it is just about one and a halfGraphics is fine. Music is also good. I would be probably bored if it took more time, but it was quite fine as it is just about one and a half hour long(at least for me).

20
Review by Floop [user]
September 18, 2015

I really like story-driven games, even more when they let you choose the story. For that, I really wanted to like this game.The art isI really like story-driven games, even more when they let you choose the story. For that, I really wanted to like this game.The art is pretty, yes. The soundtrack is not awful but at some point the way the characters talk just gets annoying. You can, however, turn that off so it's not a big deal.The problem with this game is that I didn't like the characters, I tried, but they would just complain about anything. At the end I was just skipping dialogues because I couldn't care less about some weird couple's marriage or all the games some dude played. Even though the 'desert island' theme has been used several times I felt they could have made a much better story. On the bright side, they did keep the story credible, but maybe too much. Maybe an unexpected twist or some characters with a deeper background would have made this more enjoyable.They did what they promised and your choices DO matter. But at the end they are choices about 'who gets the water' or 'who gets to eat'. In the first case, whoever you picked would get hurt (and usually this will ONLY mean they're going to keep the wound visible through the game and the will complain about it. As I said before, they just complain about everything). In the second case, you'll decide who dies.I have read many positive reviews about this game, so I guess it just wasn't my cup of tea.

50
Review by CD-Action
June 29, 2015

Dyscourse looks great on screenshots and seems like a complex gamebook, but in reality is not that beautiful and gameplay is very repetitive if you play over to see different outcomes.

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Review by mackdaddy301 [user]
June 2, 2015

I cannot believe this "game" has any positive review. I was bored in seconds. My friends kid took slightly longer to be completelyI cannot believe this "game" has any positive review. I was bored in seconds. My friends kid took slightly longer to be completely bored....but it was under a minute. There is nothing "quirky", fun, funny, interesting, or cool about this non-game, game. Feel angry and ripped off. $25 hard-earned dollars going to losers probably kicked out of school for wasting their teachers time.

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Game Information
Release Date February 3, 2015
Publisher Owlchemy Labs
Game Modes Single player
Genres Simulator, Adventure, Indie
Themes Survival
Platforms Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac