Pine: A Story of Loss

Wake up -> Daily chores -> Think of me wifey -> Carve a tribute to wife -> Sleep. This game summarized. Like, I get it, they want us to be in his shoes, life is monochrome without my other half, it's a cliche. But most games, at least the ones I played so far these repetitive moments are inserted into the middle of the game only for like 2 or 3 loops, then after followed by a number of more sped up loops that play automatically, and that's usually it for this mechanic. We can easily understand the message, it served its purpose. But in this game the routine, the menial work is the majority of the playtime, and it's just boring to watch this clinically depressed guy performing minimum activity required to continue his life without a single line of dialogue. So after doing the same thing over and over and over again, our guy eventually moves on, and that's the ending, as you can easily guess. Good for him. But unfortunately my mind also had already moved on from this game when I started the 5th day of the same repeated tasks. A whole sawbuck for this? Noway. Last Day of June, When The Past Was Around, A Space for the Unbound, pick something else. This should be priced at ~$3 or fr…

just a small note that made me install and launch this game to play: i lost my grandma on 6/6/2026 and i was the one who received the call from the hospital. my grandpa told me these words when we talked about it: "where there is life, there is death. don't be sad about what happened, be happy and celebrate the life that was given and had been lived. even though the end was bad but at least the suffering has ended." for a whole month, i've been living in this in and out state just like the woodworker in this story... holding onto memories towards the end. after playing this game, i've learnt to let those memories 'burn' and to accept that that was her end. i do not have control over what happened, but i have control of what i can make happen for myself (:

It’s a story about loss. The game is slow and repetitive to sort of emulate the emotions of the person going through it. I actually enjoy this part and think its brilliant. The reason I don’t recommend it because I didn’t really like the ending and the story in general. I think they could do more. The reason I play games is because you can do crazy stuff. If they add some sort of a twist I might have enjoyed it more. I also did not experience a huge loss to that extent so one can say I didn’t get it.

I lost my father this year to cancer. I'll miss you, Dad. No words need to be said. We all have to keep moving forward.

Short and sweet It touches the heart and soul.

Las ilustraciones son muy bonitas y entiendo el punto del juego, sin embargo, es bastante repetitivo y poco jugable, la historia queda igualmente corta y se vuelve bastante tedioso y aburrido. Si bien, se entiende el propósito de acompañar al personaje en su proceso de duelo que si bien se sabe este es lento, duro, rutinario, pesado lo cual va acorde a la temática del juego, aun así, siento que abusa de esos recursos y lo hace mal. En vez de ser un juego realmente reflexivo o que ayude al acompañamiento de una persona quizás pasando por este mismo proceso solo logra una lentitud y ningún mensaje tan bueno de por medio. El final me pareció bastante malo para todo lo que te llevas de repetición de juego y lo termines de esa manera. La estética y la música es muy bella y se aprecia bastante pero si queda muy corto como juego emocional.