Vendrán Las Aves – “The birds will come” – is a short, quiet, hopeful game of exhaustion. Summarized as a “Slice of Life Tamagotchi” and available in Spanish and English, it is a gamejam product from Francisco Riolobos, Chuso Montero and Deconstructeam, the developers based in Valencia behind the Red String Club and The Cosmic Wheel Sister SisterHood.
Free download from itch.io, and the form of a Snowglobe perspective of someone’s one -room apartment. The people in the question have just left their work after a rough mantra, and bought a guitar. However, they are completely exhausted, with almost no will to do anything other than going out of bed, not to mention creating music. Your mission is to help them overcome every day and rebuild their spirit until they feel can perform a few chords.
All this happens by allocating simple accounts. Every day, the character wakes up with a few energy points. You have to divide this between things like eating, watching TV and washing, eliminating their time in the way they wake up the next morning feel a bit more refreshing, and tend to welcome a new shiny new ax. It is not a process even. Sometimes, you only have things to order Takeaway and Doomscroll. But tomorrow is another day. One thing that appears is not paid is the importance of asking others to help – and accept it when they provide. If your mother comes to chat with a food tupperware, it will save you a few points for cooking that you can give to read a book or do some exercises.
I think Vendrán Las Aves is an approximation of my own exhausted experiences in my twenties and thirty – the feeling of faint and restlessness, passive and urgent, disappointment when discovering yourself is limited, and increasing anxiety that the world ends outside the door of your apartment. Describe all as a question about the shortened points; Personally, I often find it useful, in the short -term sense, to quantify everything in this way.
I also like it while the criticism of the character’s owner is referred to in the conversation – exhaustion is a structural phenomenon, not a personal condition – this exists with their love for their crafts. There is an advanced ending, but there is no neat resolution. That said, of course, it should be emphasized that Vendrán Las Aven is not a small book about mental health. If you feel exhausted and inactive, this page may suggest a few next few steps.
I am interested in framing this is a tamagotchi game – in fact, it reminds me more about Zoe Quinn’s depression mission. While I see Vendrán Las Aven is a construction account, compassion of a low period in someone’s life, the relationship with virtual pet seems to be more full of and can be extracted, because blood animals are often required to play an emotional support. Also, let me hug you in the direction of Eliza.
