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Closer the Distance
Closer the Distance is a slice-of-life sim that tells a deeply emotional story about the connections between family and friends in the face of tragedy. Unearth long kept secrets, repair strained relationships, and help your loved ones move on.
Details
- Released
- August 1, 2024
- Developer
- Osmotic Studios
- Genres
- Point-and-click · Role-playing (RPG) · Simulator · Adventure · Indie
- Publisher
- Skybound Games
- Platforms
- PC · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S
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Closer the Distance Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Closer the Distance is a unique and touching story told in the style of The Sims, where you decide what happens.
Closer the Distance is The Sims, except it makes you cry thinking about the nature of grief.
Closer The Distance surely is made with much care, with excellent acting and writing, and offers a heartfelt and open-ended premise. You might end up connecting yourself with the game while you heal broken connections, get insight into their history.
Some of us have lost someone close to us. Most of us have lost someone far too early. All of us have seen death, whether it took your mother, your cousin, or just your barber. Grieving is a prevailing theme in all fiction, because death is the most universally relatable concept in the world. However, it’s not often that the story itself is grieving. Closer the Distance takes every painful second, every instance of loss, every wistful stare at the empty chair in your kitchen, and makes you live it minute by agonizing minute.
Closer the Distance feels like a depressing Sunday night BBC drama about a struggling coastal community dealing with the fallout of a young member of their