to the earth and back

Released 2022-03-30

To the earth and back is a surreal game about coming to terms with who you are and nostalgia. You play as a girl named "young man" remembering her past.

This game was one of the prototypes for Untitled. created when i first testing out tilesheets and messed up one fatally. When I saw that, I realised that making a game with a bunch of rudamentary shapes could actually be really appealing and unique, so I glued a bunch of sentimental text together in a surreal stylisation and put a few ambient rock experiments I'd made out of samples into the soundtrack since I had no other place to put them, and this was the result.

The music is recycled scraps from older songs I had made. The intro track was for my old ambient band "Marchosias" and main theme is a paulstretched version of one of my first ever songs, changing it from an offtempo, non-syncing song into a really good dronerock song.
Update 2025-03-20 I updated the game, lmfao. When someone was trying to install it they had messaged me telling me about how the RPGM RunTime package is needed. The RTP is a complete failure of an idea and i don't even know why it's in RM, so this revision fixes it as well as fixing the most minor issue in the game as well (one part needing you to use the action button to go to the next area when the others don't need you to).


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