NORTH
Outlands · 2016 · Indie, Adventure, Atmospheric, Walking Simulator, Cyberpunk
PC
Mixed67% · 165 📉 Recent reviews down 59%
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In NORTH, you explore a sprawling cyberpunk mega-city filled with strange creatures and customs while attempting to navigate the asylum application process through exploration, puzzles, and letters home to your sister. This atmospheric narrative experience tackles the contemporary refugee crisis through a Blade Runner-inspired lens complete with dark synthpop soundtrack and bizarre monster inhabitants.
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In NORTH you play a man who applies for asylum in a city filled with strange creatures and strange customs.
Dealing with the issue of the contemporary refugee crisis while at the same time being deeply rooted in a classical cyberpunk atmosphere à la Blade Runner, NORTH features a dark synthpop soundtrack, a sprawling mega-city and weird monster-like inhabitants.
The gameplay is very straightforward and mostly consists of exploration and simple puzzles. The main difficulty is to understand what you have to do in order to get asylum. You've come from an foreign land in the south and find yourself lost and confused - a confusion you convey through letters to your sister back home. An important part of the gameplay, these letters help you understand your tasks while at the same time moving the narrative of the game forward.
NORTH is short (20-40 min) and comes with a full soundtrack (8 songs).
In NORTH you play a man who applies for asylum in a city filled with strange creatures and strange customs.
Dealing with the issue of the contemporary refugee crisis while at the same time being deeply rooted in a classical cyberpunk atmosphere à la Blade Runner, NORTH features a dark synthpop soundtrack, a sprawling mega-city and weird monster-like inhabitants.
The gameplay is very straightforward and mostly consists of exploration and simple puzzles. The main difficulty is to understand what you have to do in order to get asylum. You've come from an foreign land in the south and find yourself lost and confused - a confusion you convey through letters to your sister back home. An important part of the gameplay, these letters help you understand your tasks while at the same time moving the narrative of the game forward.
NORTH is short (20-40 min) and comes with a full soundtrack (8 songs).
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Short, atmospheric narrative-exploration game set in a cyberpunk city, centred on the story of a refugee and his sister ✅Good, simple, colourful graphics ✅A good soundtrack that suits the game’s atmosphere ✅An interesting concept for a game about refugees ✅The price is good value for the game’s content ✅Simple environmental puzzles ✅Exploration of a large city ❌Unclear objective ❌I experienced some stuttering in certain areas; the game may have been poorly optimised ❌No options menu or save feature ✅✅ Verdict: [strike] Terrible [/strike] , [strike] Bad [/strike] , [strike] Mediocre [/strike] , [b] Decent [/b] , [strike] Good [/strike] , [strike] Very Good [/strike] (Rating scale for tested game) [quote] If you'd like to see more of my reviews, you can find them on my curator page: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45994324/admin/reviews_manage/]CuratorKingViking[/url] and on my group: [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/CuratorKingViking]GroupKingViking[/url] If you have any questions about my reviews, feel free to ask. I’m happy to answer them. All reviews are my own!! Best regards, King Viking Bezimienny, Polish Game Reviewer. [/quote]19 found this helpful
I rather go outside and walk thank you.8 found this helpful
[h1] Short, abstract walking sim. Better to watch this one. [/h1]4 found this helpful
[i] I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien I'm a southern man in the NORTH. [/i] A very brief walking sim that captures the nightmare that is the immigration office. You also run around a mine trying not to have a heart attack, all so you can feed rocks to an alien trapped in a vat of blue Gatorade. Only recommend picking this up if it’s free.1 found this helpful
NORTH is a surreal first-person narrative experience that transforms themes of immigration, isolation, and identity into a strange cyberpunk nightmare filled with symbolism and emotional discomfort. Rather than functioning as a traditional game focused on action or progression, it plays more like an interactive psychological journey through an unfamiliar society that constantly reminds the player they are an outsider. The experience is short, minimalistic, and intentionally cryptic, yet it leaves a powerful impression because of how effectively it creates feelings of confusion, loneliness, and emotional displacement. The story follows a man fleeing from the south in search of asylum within a massive futuristic city located in the north. Instead of finding comfort or safety, he enters an environment ruled by strange customs, oppressive systems, and bizarre social expectations that are never fully explained. From the very beginning, the city feels cold and emotionally detached. The player is surrounded by towering buildings, distorted inhabitants, and unsettling architecture that creates the sense of stepping into a place completely disconnected from ordinary reality. Every interact…
https://youtu.be/ZTL6RPTdifY Oddly structured and lacking even minimal structure if there is a throughline for this game it's well buried.
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