The world of independent video games is littered with narrative experiences of ambitious emotional scope. With their latest creation THE WRECK, French studio The Pixel Hunt wanted to deal head-on with the consequences and fear of grief in a deeply moving video game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4AL5cDS7dA We follow Juno, a young woman at her mother's hospital bedside after her mother suffers a stroke. The thirty-something is surprised to learn that she is responsible for her mother's medical treatment, even though her prognosis is life-threatening. The relationship between the two has been conflictual…
“In THE WRECK, you embody the heroine’s vital drive, and without you, she’ll never make it” – Florent Maurin (The Pixel Hunt)
