Welcome Back
Welcome Back is a short, cathartic interactive fiction story about a train station that only services liminal spaces, and your journey to find someone important to tell them something important.
It takes about fifteen minutes to play, and I'd recommend setting it to fullscreen!
Thank you Devin Yang (@devinScribbles) for the lovely cover art, Grim Baccaris (@grimoirtua) for Twine help, and Anna Webster and Kit Conklin for moral support and reminding me that humans need to eat and sleep.
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Accolades to the author, that was absolutely brilliant and beautiful...
absolutely beautiful
beautiful game. truly a slice of catharsis i haven't felt in a long time, thank you for writing this. the visuals the descriptions were heart-touching and the use of liminal spaces was so masterfully done. amazing work.
This really got me. Beautiful descriptions.
This is so lovely. I do think I may have hit a broken thread as well...? May give it another go another time as I would love to finish the moment --
This was wonderful to play. Thank you for the beautiful words you strung together in this lovely experience. Congratulations on such a great game!
Thanks to the choices, this story felt very personal (and emotional!) to me - beautiful work!
i loved this a lot. thank you for making it.
It was lovely and atmospheric to play, and it told me some things I needed to hear, though I think I hit a broken thread (didn't get an ending). I am also glad I was listening to some appropriate music while playing. Made the space feel more real. Overall, just a nice experience.
I've been meaning to play your games for a while, and I'm glad I did. I played with this in the background and it was perfect. The core idea is gorgeous, it's well-written and implemented, and weirdly it managed to give me closure about a situation where real closure will never be possible. Might have shed some cheeky tears :') Thank you for making this, and well done for the impressive, high calibre work!
oh, lord, i have never felt so emotionally attached to a character for a long long time, thank you
perhaps some voice acting and sounds could make the experience even more amazing :P
personally I think voice acting would take away from it, but ambience or sounds would be really nice
thank you
This destroyed my heart I loved it.
that felt nice. <3
this is indeed very liminal and i appreciated your approaches to it and the pockets of warmth (at least in the routes i took) in contrast
10/10 All aboard the feels train