Please Hold Me is a narrative game with a unique dialog system where you hold a conversation with a virtual friend in dire need of a confident to talk to.
Developer: Olivier Bouchard
Release date: TBD
Platforms: PC & Mac, itch.io and Steam
Price: TBD, around $2 USD
Steam Page: Steam
itch.io Page: itch.io
Availability: Digital download
Estimated playtime: 15 to 20 minutes
Language: English
DESCRIPTION
TRIGGER WARNINGS: Mental illnesses, Suicidal Ideation, Self-Harm
Please Hold Me is a short narrative game where your interact with Olivier, a very anxious character who is afraid of everything. By using a unique and unpredictable non-linear dialog system, you will converse with him and become his confident. Please Hold Me is meant to be a game about the true meaning of empathy, how being there for someone means sharing their burden and knowing how to take a step back.
The dialog system of Please Hold Me is intended to be closer to a free-flowing conversation than the usual dialog trees of video games. Each topics of discussion can be only used once and will create different answer depending of the context in which they are used. The small nature of the game lets it be filled with imperceptible branching paths, meaning the player will make choices in the conversation without knowing the impacts of their decisions.
FEATURES
A new and innovative dialog system
Over fifty topics of discussion
Hand-drawn graphics
Choice driven dialog
Multiple endings and secrets
Raw emotions
HISTORY
Please Hold Me is the second game developed by Olivier Bouchard. A Game About, his first game, was distributed on Steam (click here for the Steam Page) and amassed over 35K players with a 90% positive user rating. Olivier is also a French Canadian film critic and works in video editing for Difuze.
