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Soul Searching is a narrative survival game about sailing away from your homeland.
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Very Positive (243) - 90% of the 243 user reviews for this game are positive.
Release Date:
Feb 15, 2017
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Publisher:
Talha Kaya, Nakana.io, Kayabros
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By attraction to the stranger June 18

“Loneliness, far from your hometown, exploring the unknown. Don't be fooled by its simple pixel art, this game is an experience with hidden layers, a good story and excellent sound effects.
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Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English ✔ ✔ ✔
Turkish ✔ ✔ ✔
Includes 8 Steam Achievements
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“Soul Searching is excellent, definitely worth a look!”
Devolver Digital

“I feel it’s fair to say there are few games I’ve come across that moved me as much as this one did.”
Popzara

“It shocked me when I realise that I was already in the depths of the developers mind. I was witnessing a personal journey but it became also personal for me so fast, I kept playing with a guilty pleasure.”
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About This Game

Soul Searching is a narrative survival game about sailing away from your homeland.

You sail on your small primitive boat to a world of islands, dragons, and magic. You can learn about stories of people living on islands you chose to visit, discover dragons, catch fish, customize your boats, find ghosts, cast magic spells, and more.

Soul Searching leaves you in an open world without any tutorialization except telling you the buttons to play. There is not one correct path. There are a number of play styles you can choose, depending on your hunger for gold and better boats. You might get lost, but it won’t take too long to find your way to the end.

Soul Searching is about growing up, leaving your homeland, standing on your own feet. It deals with themes like isolation, searching for meaning and direction, leading to depression and suicidal thoughts.

As the player, you are not a violent hero. The most violent thing you can do in this game is to catch fish to feed yourself. Other than that, it’s a game of humble survival and peaceful travels. But in that humbleness you are challenged to survive in a world of merciless dragons and endless seas.

Made by a one man team spanning 3 years of development, Soul Searching is a very personal game. It tries exciting story-telling methods to convey feelings rarely conveyed in games. Since all code, art, music, everything is made by one person, it offers a special sense of authorship hard to find in other games.

Other than the single player story mode, game also offers a randomly generated mode from 1 to 4 local players. This offers replay value and requires players to work together to survive. More players, more need for resources, so more challenge, but more skills to survive.

Soul Searching invites you to its world of mysteries. Even though the main story play time is not that long, if you want to unlock every achievement in the game, you will have to get lost in this world.

Features:
  • Around 3 hours of single player story mode
  • Random mode from 1 to 4 players that randomly generates a map and requires players to work together to survive
  • Creatures at sea: dragons, killer whales, and more
  • Islands with lots of monologues, and other islands that are not populated by humans
  • Magic skills that let you survive on sea more easily
  • Player appearance customization (including gender and sexual interest customization)
  • Day night cycle that affects gameplay in subtle ways
  • Extensive soundtrack
  • English and Turkish language support
  • Supporting selectable control schemes: 4 players on Xbox gamepads, 2 players on keyboard, 1 player on mouse

System Requirements

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    Minimum:
    • OS *: Windows XP SP2+
    • Processor: CPU: SSE2 instruction set support
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Graphics card: DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities
    • DirectX: Version 9.0
    • Storage: 250 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS *: Windows 7+
    • Processor: CPU: SSE2 instruction set support
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Graphics card: DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities
    • DirectX: Version 9.0
    • Storage: 250 MB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    Minimum:
    • OS: Mac OS X 10.8+
    • Processor: CPU: SSE2 instruction set support
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Graphics card: DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities
    • Storage: 250 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Mac OS X 10.8+
    • Processor: CPU: SSE2 instruction set support
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Graphics card: DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities
    • Storage: 250 MB available space
    Minimum:
    • OS: Ubuntu 12.04+, SteamOS+
    • Processor: CPU: SSE2 instruction set support
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Graphics: OpenGL ES 2.0 or later
    • Storage: 250 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Ubuntu 12.04+, SteamOS+
    • Processor: CPU: SSE2 instruction set support
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: OpenGL ES 2.0 or later
    • Storage: 250 MB available space
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