Overseas is a collection of four short art games, or digital poems. So far, it includes four episodes: a psychedelic trip, a forest horror, a crash course on shamanic techniques, and a simulator of an identity crisis. Take a journey across worlds and figure out the obscure meaning of what is going on.
All Reviews:
Mostly Positive (18) - 77% of the 18 user reviews for this game are positive.
Release Date:
Aug 30, 2019
Publisher:

Sign in to add this item to your wishlist, follow it, or mark it as ignored

Buy Overseas

 

About This Game

OVERSEAS is a collection of short art games, or digital poems, which are joined together by a common interface – a mysterious place resembling a spaceship.

It is not quite a game: there is no challenge and no story in the usual sense. The goal is to take a journey across worlds to perceive the associative relations between them and figure out the obscure meaning of what is going on. Quotes by Heraclitus, throat singing, a plastic bag dancing in the wind – here, like in poetry, all sorts of things are tied together.

The collection is potentially unlimited, and in the course of time new games will be added. Now there are four episodes – each is designed for 5–15 minutes of gameplay and has an ending.

Tlön


In this episode, the fleetingness of a moment is simulated. The player wanders in a psychedelic digital jungle, among elusive objects changing their shape when nobody is looking at them. Tlön is a world of nature, wild but quite fragile.

La forêt


It is a game with a touch of horror, inspired by Max Ernst’s paintings of mysterious forests. By looking around, the player continually transforms the landscape. Also, you can plant a tree to trigger an uncanny chain reaction.

Sacred Grove


Here you can learn secret shamanic techniques and experience what it means to be truly connected to nature. You will feel powerful… or powerless? Maybe sometimes it is better just to let it go.

Chernodyrsk / Black Hole City


This episode is a simulator of a Russian gopnik (urban white trash) struggling through an identity crisis. Its unique mechanics allows you to think about the vanity of all worldly things while wandering around a bad neighbourhood.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

One of the episodes contains strong language.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS *: Windows 7 64 bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i3-3220 or AMD FX-6300
    • Memory: 1024 MB RAM
    • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti or ATI Radeon HD 5839
    • DirectX: Version 9.0
    • Storage: 300 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS *: Windows 8, 8.1, 10 64 bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-7500 or AMD Ryzen 5-1600
    • Memory: 4096 MB RAM
    • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 950, ATI Radeon HD 6970
    • DirectX: Version 9.0
    • Storage: 300 MB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

Customer reviews for Overseas

Review Type


Purchase Type


Language


Date Range
To view reviews within a date range, please click and drag a selection on a graph above or click on a specific bar.

Show graph



Playtime
Filter reviews by the user's playtime when the review was written:


No minimum to No maximum

Display
Show reviews in selected display order





Learn More
Show graph
 
Hide graph
 
Filters
Excluding Off-topic Review Activity
Playtime:
Played Mostly on Steam Deck
There are no more reviews that match the filters set above
Adjust the filters above to see other reviews
Loading reviews...