Although this is not a point-and-click adventure, as there are light exploration elements, the main focus of Dordogne is certainly the story and its emotional weight, which slowly keeps raising the stakes as the summer memories come to a close.
Certain mundane tasks such as pulling out weeds and planting flowers, giving the cat to eat, and getting ready for a new day are among a few of them. The gameplay of Dordogne mainly serves as a narrative device to ease the player into the mental state of Mimi, both as a child and an adult. At the end of each chapter, Mimi can preserve each moment with these creative tools at the player’s disposal, and each entry will be quite different for each person playing, depending on their creative output, enticing you to let your artistic side shine. As you move around the house and the countryside, there are stickers you can grab, words floating that you can pick for making poetry later on, recording sounds, and taking pictures with an old camera. This is basically how each chapter unfolds.Īs the days go by and young Mimi sets into Nora’s home and feels less uncomfortable, she finds a binder that serves as her journal and a way of recording everything around her. After unlocking key situations, she goes back to the present and continues her search. The player then takes control of Mimi as a child, and the wondrous world around her seems brighter than as an adult, portraying the nostalgia-filled memories of her summer with Grandma Nora. Shortly after, as Mimi enters her grandmother’s home, known as Nora, from letters she had found earlier, she goes into a daze as she finds an object that instantly reminds her of that fateful summer where she spent countless hours exploring Dordogne. The opening scene starts with a question to the player and what becomes the purpose of the narrative, “What is your first memory?” This upsets Mimi as she realizes she cannot remember anything from her early childhood, and as her grandmother has just passed away, she decides to revisit her home in Dordogne in the hopes of unlocking her childhood memories.
Dordogne is a warm rural area in the French countryside where a river and city meet and the game does it justice with its beautifully hand-crafted watercolors. Developed by Un Je Ne Sais Quoi, animated by UMANIMATION, and published by Focus Entertainment, this narrative adventure puts you in the role of Mimi, a middle-aged woman having trouble remembering her past, specifically a heartwarming summer vacation she spent with her grandmother that changed her life. Small studios have proved time and time again that with a little support and years of hard work and love put into a project they can turn out to be life-changing experiences if the player is willing to focus on them.Ĭase in point, Dordogne. In recent years, the indie gaming scene has been flooded with deeply personal narratives and creative art styles that constantly challenge what a video game is. Enjoy a relaxing watercolor summer in France on Dordogne.
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