Family

About This Game

Family is brilliant. The theme fits the mechanics perfectly, and the music is excellent. Really enjoyed it. Great work! - Lucas Pope, Papers Please, Return of the Obra Dinn.

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Reviews

As a piece of detective micro-fiction...t’s great, because it has what most attempts at detective games don’t really nail: the personal touch

- Alice Bell,

Rock Paper Shotgun

Family is a brief submersion into a time gone by...It's a game about relaxing in a warm memory, either your own or in my case, someone else's. And you know what? The Smiths: finally I'm beginning to see why.

- Robert Purchese,

Eurogamer

Family is great...clearly borne from a love and deep understanding of indie music, and of a bygone age of music journalism... If the words 'NME' and 'Melody Maker' are not just meaningless noise, you should probably play it.

- Tom Sykes,

PC Gamer

"Goodness me, this is a clever thing... really satisfying hour or so. It’s quite mad that this is free...a job well done"

- John Walker (RPS Founder),

Buried Treasures

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Family is a really interesting concept... a different kind of detective game and definitely one worth giving a look if you have any interest in the pop scene of that era.

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Jupiter Hadley,

IndieGamesPlus

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Overview

Family is a puzzle game, based around a fictional, forgotten 80s indie music scene.

Discover the strange and wonderful music of long-lost bands, while uncovering their stories.

A note about the Web Version

This has a slimmed down version of the cut scenes for intro, tutorial and outro. The rest of game is identical. However, I do recommend downloading the 'full fat' Windows version, if you have option.

Credits

Music, Art & Code by Tim Sheinman (Owl_Skip)

Voice work by Hattie Snooks, Daniel Duke, Mark West

Bass Guitar - Ali Wedderburn.

Soundtrack

Instructions

In the main game scr