Across the Grooves
Nova-box · 2020 · Indie, Choices Matter, Visual Novel, Great Soundtrack, Story Rich
PC
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About Across the Grooves
Across the Grooves is an interactive graphic novel, set in a magical-realism universe. Your decisions affect the destiny of Alice, drastically changing her reality and allowing her to explore alternative destinies by modifying her past.
Alice lives an uneventful life. She’s in a long term relationship, has a stable office job and a nice apartment in the center of Bordeaux. One day, Ulysse, her ex-lover, comes back into her life through an old vinyl record she receives in the mail. When she puts it for a spin on turntable, she is thrown back into her own past, forced to relive old events. When she comes back to the present, her reality has changed.
Determined to bring her life back on track, Alice packs up and embarks on a hunt across Europe, following the tracks of Ulysse while trying to uncover the origins of the record. However, her journey gradually turns into a quest of self-discovery as she explores new parallel realities each time she puts the needle in the groove.
- A hand-crafted adventure — With each playthrough, discover a novel-sized adventure and a slice of the hundreds of hand-drawn images created for the game.
- Every choice matters — Each decision you make slightly alters the personality of the main character, Alice.
- An invitation to travel — Feel the pulse of European cities, meet colourful characters and solve the mystery, all depicted in gorgeous European comic book art style.
- Immersive and finely crafted soundtrack — The music adapts and shifts according to your choices and the mood of each scene.
- High replayability — Choose Alice’s fate and discover the outcome of your decisions through multiple story paths and endings.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Gorgeous art, great writing, and a lot of different ways to shape the character as you play her through the game. I really enjoyed this game and played through to get all possible endings.
It's well-written, interesting and beautifully illustrated. I love the subtle changes between routes. The main downside is there's no way to skip what you've already read. Other than that it's a thoroughly enchanting experience.
The art work is nice. The music fits fine. The idea of the plot is quite interesting and twisted. The experience of the playthrough though is somewhat girly. Dissapointing part is absence of any real choices, imposed love story without proper development of characters relationship, very naive ending and the biggest dissapointment is zero use for the type of your character build - 4 types, acquired from options one makes in dialogue. Not even statistics on the characteristics you have acquired, I'm not even mentioning how good it would make the game, if some of the choices were added, based on the acquired characteristics. What was point in that system at all? It was just fooling you and giving false hope that it matters.
One of the best visual novels, perfect!!!
The art alone would be worth buying this one, this art style is amazing, and story is also really good. I'm always worried that time-travel stories will lose themselves with all the possibilities of changes, but this one stayed quite centered and managed to land the plane very well. It's quite short, but I find that I like it, and it has good options of replayability. The only downside to me are the singing parts, which are quite bland for a game that talks so much about music, both in melody and lyrics, although the visuals compensate and these sections don't happen often.
Across The Grooves was great to play and very much on par with Nova-box's standards. I've enjoyed every game so far. Pros: - Great story with multiple endings - Lots of references to music - Artwork is the best in the business - Soundtrack suits the game to a tea - Two romance options with both genders - Easter eggs One con: The songs are very repetitive with lacklustre vocals. The lyrics certainly deserved more work as well. It would have been fun to have fully fleshed out songs from different genres/eras to reflect the main character's personality/choices.
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