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Wide Ocean Big Jacket
An aunt and uncle take their middle-school niece and her boyfriend on an overnight camping trip. Roast hot dogs on the fire, go birdwatching, tell ghost stories, grab a beverage from the cooler and do cartwheels on the beach. Wide Ocean Big Jacket is a short story game including 20 chapters, four playable characters, 10,000 words of dialog and 8 explorable areas, all rendered in a beautiful 2D/3D art style.
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Reviews
11 reviews found91
Gaming Age
May 20, 2020
Summary and quote unavailable.
85
GameCritics
Aug 13, 2020
Summary and quote unavailable.
80
Destructoid
Feb 4, 2020
Summary and quote unavailable.
80
Eurogamer
Feb 7, 2020
Summary and quote unavailable.
80
Switch Player
Feb 12, 2020
Wide Ocean Big Jacket is a short story in video game form. With relatable themes and a cast of flawed yet lovable characters, this slice-of-life experience is worth a look for any fan of narrative-driven adventures.
80
Slant Magazine
Feb 23, 2020
The game captures place and feeling through honing in on things that are singular, small, and warm.
79
New Game Network
Mar 3, 2020
Summary and quote unavailable.
70
Cubed3
Feb 24, 2020
From a gameplay standpoint, Wide Ocean Big Jacket is an extremely simple game - with 'game' put between the biggest quote marks imaginable. As an experience, though, this is something else entirely. Turnfollow's tiny adventure is basically a funny, and occasionally very sweet, slice-of-life tale of four people enjoying themselves in the woods, while also dealing with some serious matters, but not in a very serious way. It's not a narrative-driven game. It is vacation in video game form - and only the good parts are included.
70
TheGamer
Feb 5, 2020
Summary and quote unavailable.
NA
The Verge
Feb 16, 2020
It’s enough to make you wish there were more games like it. Wide Ocean Big Jacket follows 13-year-old teens Mord and Ben, longtime friends who recently started dating, as they go camping overnight with Mord’s Uncle Brad and Aunt Cloanne.
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