Obscure
Ishmael
57% positive of 84 Steam reviews
- Released
- 2018
- Steam Deck
- Not tested
- Platforms
- Steam
Made by Jordan Magnuson.
About the game
Ishmael is a short multimedia-enhanced hypertext story about perpetual cycles of displacement and violence as seen through the lens of a child. Takes about 15 minutes to read/play through.
Tagged by players
- Political Sim
- Experimental
- Short
- Philosophical
- Text-Based
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- Interactive Fiction
- Life Sim
- Emotional
- Incremental
- Time Management
- Visual Novel
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