Last Day of June Reviews
A joy to view but sometimes a chore to play, Last Day of June delivers a touching story that's worth finishing.
Last Day of June is a touching story of love and loss, its emotional weight cemented by eerie visuals and a spine-tingling soundtrack.
The puzzles are entertaining and exploring the neighborhood is a joy, but these moments are brought down by repetition
Last Day of June is a narrative puzzle game that makes full use of a wide range of powerful emotive devices to make its point. Its fairly straightforward puzzles won't keep you up, scratching your noggin at night, but the effect of its wonderful characters and the love they have for one another will leave you feeling like you belong to something bigger than yourself.
Although Last Day of June's story has impactful moments of grief, loss, and companionship, it's limited by a frustratingly repetitive gameplay loop.
Last Day of June is a beautiful presentation of a heart-wrenching tale that is hindered by less-than-stellar game mechanics.
Looking past the mediocre puzzle and adventuring elements as well as the cinematic repetition, Last Day of June excels at storytelling – conveying emotion on-screen in a way few other games manage to achieve. The developer has admittedly done a sound job at making a title involving such depressing themes as beautiful as possible – through its unique animation, perfectly synced soundtrack and stunning visuals. If you do intend on playing this, the ending is as catastrophic as it is comforting.
There's a fantastic story here, filled with some great concepts and plenty of poignancy, ready to make you question the importance of life.
The Last Day of June is an emotional, gentle puzzle, where you must live one sunny afternoon over and over again to try and avert tragedy. It doesn't feel especially new, but it'll still probably make you a bit teary.
Last Day of June is a personal and emotional journey that brings you to the most beautiful corners of love and the darkest and most painful corners of loss at the same time. It's a compelling journey, with relatable characters within a beautiful world, brought to life with a sensational score. But ultimately, it's uninspired, core ground-hog day gameplay loop hinders and undermines everything that has been built around it.
Last Day of June is one of the most beautiful stories of the year. Guarini creates a complex, yet achievable for everyone, loves story.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Last Day of June is a game that, even though it is not as emotional as it could seem, does a great job entertaining the player and delivers a story where everything revolves around the memories.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
While I think "The Last Day of June's" narrative flow is slightly undermined by the fact that players can spin their wheels looking for puzzle solutions, it is, on the whole, a small, vibrant game that reminds us that everyone is filled with depths that belie the selves we present to the world.
Last Day of June is an original, intimate, moving and human interactive adventure. A tale of love and loss for PS4 and PC.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Last Day of June presents a pretty depressing love story in a charming and visually amazing package. While it certainly isn't for everyone, those with a fondness for narrative focused games best enjoyed in on sitting will find an enjoyable, if terribly sad experience.
The true test for any game of this kind is whether it can keep player hungry enough to see it through to the end. Although I wasn't completely enthralled (the repetitive puzzles and a couple of bugs broke my immersion) it still managed to lodge its hooks in me and I'd be lying if I said those final moments didn't make me feel anything. Last Day of June is a emotive, sometimes enchanting story of love and loss that, while it doesn't break new ground, will resonate with plenty of gamers out there.
A little piece of art full of potential that slips over its conclusion.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Last Day of June is an intimate and moving adventure, yet elegant and sophisticated. Albeit a linear structure and some minor gameplay flaws, it's a game that tells an extremely human story, with some unexpected surprises, and where the gameplay drives the narrative. A shining example of how videogames can be an authentic expression of emotions.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Shortly after the intro moments, when I realized that The Last Day of June wasn't a title about the end of summer but the last day of a person's life, the reality set in that this was going to be an emotional rollercoaster, and it surely is.
It would have been so easy to fall into cliché with the uncomplicated characters of Last Day of June, but the writing here speaks of the keen awareness the developers have towards the themes of the game.