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1,000 Heads Among the Trees

Visit the real town of Cachiche, Peru, to spend your nights searching for spirits and taking photos. Discover a generative narrative as you show your photos to local people who describe what they see in them.

All Reviews:

Mixed (42) - 57% of the 42 user reviews for this game are positive.

Release Date:

Dec 11, 2015

Developer:

Aaron Oldenburg

Publisher:

KISS ltd

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Features

Steam Achievements

Steam Trading Cards

Languages:

	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	✔	✔	✔

Includes 6 Steam Achievements

Wandering Around at Night with Expensive Camera

No Manners

Palm Reading

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Title: 1,000 Heads Among the Trees
Genre: Indie

Developer: Aaron Oldenburg

Publisher: KISS ltd

Release Date: Dec 11, 2015

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Awards

Selected for the International Indie Den Showcase at Game Happens! in Genova Cornigliano, Italy. Exhibited at Synthetic Zero Event at BronxArtSpace, New York (2015) and the Maryland Artist Registry Juried Exhibition at Maryland Art Place, Baltimore (2016).

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Reviews

“What works here is that uncertainty space... In a number of places you’ll see shadows that don’t have a body. And you’ll also see people discussing secrets in dark rooms or running past you hurriedly from behind fences. But this only adds to the underlying feeling of something sinister and ominous present, watching you, following you wherever you go...”
Kill Screen

“It's all pleasantly dizzying, like a fever dream.”
Baltimore City Paper

About This Game

Visit a quiet town in the Peruvian desert at night searching for spirits and taking photos, then sharing these pictures with locals who free-associate based on them. This game is based on time I spent with a brujo in the desert suburb of Cachiche, a town that was founded by witches during the Peruvian Inquisition. Here descendants of witches still live and continue to practice traditional healing and fortune-telling.

FEATURES

Explore a 3D world with ambient sounds, voices and textures from the Peruvian desert, a living environment at night.
Use your photography as a means of conversing with non-player characters, revealing what they see as well as what they imagine.
See yourself as an outsider, lurking in alleys, eavesdropping on conversations, going where you're not supposed to go.
Watch the forces of tourism at work and the conflicts rumbling beneath the surface of a small town.
Discover that your camera is not just a passive recorder, but that its act of observation can change the environment.
Complete progressively more abstract quests and delusional journal entries.
Export and share your photos.

System Requirements

Windows

macOS

Minimum:

OS: WindowsXP SP2 or higher
Processor: 1.80GHz Processor
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Video card with 512MB of VRAM
Storage: 500 MB available space

Minimum:

OS: OS X v10.7 Lion or higher
Processor: 1.80GHz Processor
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Video card with 512MB of VRAM
Storage: 500 MB available space

* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.

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