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Family Reunion is a dinnertime simulation game that captures the wonder and boredom of being a loosely disciplined 7-year-old

Rock Paper Shotgun·James Archer·24 days ago
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A food fight against time itself Image credit: Waibinin I first played Family Reunion at Gamescom Latam last week, which in hindsight was a bit of trek, considering the demo is right there on Itch and Steam . It’s good fun, though: a unique and chaotic time-attack adventure game, in which you play a disinterested child forced to entertain themselves throughout an interminable family meal, and rendered in the hand-doodled style that we all have before we learn how to properly hold a pen. Mercifully, the feast – or in my case the starter, as that’s all the demo covered – mercifully does not take place in real time. But without your stubby-handed intervention it’ll last even longer, as the primary antagonist here is neither the family, nor the food, but the clock. At first it’ll creep down in fractions of fractions of a second, cheekily recreating the sensation of being stuck at a table against your will.…

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