1000 Heads Among the Trees

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Available on:PCDec 11, 2015

Developer: Aaron Oldenburg

Genre: Interactive Story

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Visit the real town of Cachiche, Peru, to spend your nights looking for potential ghosts to photograph. Discover a generative narrative as you show your photos to local people who spin stories about what they see in them. Cachiche is a suburb founded hundreds of years ago in the desert by witches during the Peruvian Inquisition. The game recreates the environment through documentation taken onsite and real interviews with local witches, descendants of witches, and visitors.

1000 Heads Among the Trees Critic Reviews

Hardcore Gamer

Luke George

1.5 / 5.0

For a game that has such an incredibly interesting premise, 1000 Heads Among the Trees is utterly woeful in execution. The sound is bad, the visuals are bad, and to top it off, the narrative —which is heralded as the focus— is horrendous. In the information given about the developer, there is a line that says "he generally tries to spend as much of his game development time as he can working away from his computer" and honestly, it shows.

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