The Wreck
A mature 3D visual novel about sisterhood, motherhood, grief and survival.
At 36, Junon’s life is in pieces: her career has stalled, she’s emotionally numb, and her personal life is falling apart. Things come to a head when she’s called to the ER to find her estranged mother in a critical condition. This is the most important day of Junon’s life, and unless something changes, it might be her last.
Relive the Past
Experience Junon’s memories and piece together the story of her past, including the tragic secret that lies at its centre.
Alter the Present
Use your understanding of Junon’s trauma to change how she navigates the day, unlocking new dialogue options and healing broken relationships.
Embrace the Future
When you’re at rock bottom, there’s nowhere to go but up. Help Junon find peace with herself and discover the humor, beauty and hope that lie even on life’s bleakest days.
This game is fully dubbed in English.
Game Discussion
Steam User 2
This was interesting and enjoyable, a fresh spin on a "visual novel" type of story. I think I'd rate it about 6.5/10 as I'm sure it won't appeal to everyone.
Though the game plays like a standard visual novel, the visual presentation of it is unique in what I've experienced so far, and that's what makes it really stand out. The best part of it is the 3D "constant motion" aspects of each scene. In particular, the various "flashback" scenes that you play through over and over. They look great and going through the scene from different angles feels fairly immersive. And each time you find new word clues to pull out more history and understanding of the situation that the main character takes back with her when the flashback is over. This provides the means for character growth as the story progresses.
You do have some "choices" in the dialogue options throughout the game, and those choices have some minor impact on the next few lines of dialogue. But overall the choices you make have practically no impact on the outcome of the story. A few specific choices give you specific achievements, and then at the very end you can pick between 3 different takes on the ending. But with the ending being relatively short, I wouldn't say that choice makes much more impact than any of the others.
The primary themes are strained relationships, grief, and motherhood. I found the motherhood and grief-related parts most poignant, but the commentary on strained relationships and making good decisions within them was also fairly well done. If these topics don't interest you at all, then I'm pretty confident you won't enjoy the visual novel at all. Every line is voice acted and the main character in particular does a great job with them. The side characters are all very competent with their voice acting, just not quite as convincing as the main character.
Overall, if you generally like visual novels, and deep relationally-focused stories don't turn you off, plus you like new takes on graphical presentations in this genre, then I think you'd likely also enjoy this. It's not life-changing, but it was worth the time spent.
Steam User 3
I'm a huge fan of reality-inspired games. If you want a story told/played in a semi-relaxing way (relaxing visuals, but mystery is there!) then you might appreciate this game.
Steam User 2
I recommend on condition that it's not a game really, and you are fully aware of that. It's an interactive visual novel. Visually it's excellent. Characters and emotions are very realistic, feels a lot like a personal story, something that really happened to someone and then was made into this experience. I was little bit disappointed though because I hoped for more game. You know, actually making choices and doing things besides remembering the past. They do say it's a visual novel, so that mistake is on me. They also have choices matter tag, and that one is on them because there's only one choice that actually matters in this game. Not enough to send it into no recommend zone, but had to mention.
Steam User 1
Nice mature story, gameplay integration is a bit weak though
Steam User 2
I liked it. The story was good and the character's were complex and well-developed. It explores themes of trauma and grief in a meaningful way. Integrating its mechanics in a way that informs its storytelling.
Steam User 3
Beautiful and insanely emotional story. The gameplay mechanics are nothing special and feel a bit tedious at the start, but I stopped caring about that once the story started picking up and I got more invested. This game is about tons of important themes and really makes you care about the characters and sympathise with them.
Steam User 2
How could I put this feeling into words ,I can't . I was SHOCKED. The way this game telling a story about the a woman and her daughter ,her sister and her mother,is just so unique and soul-touching.Dare I say ,this is the reason that game is the ninth art .I can't express how much I appreciate Dev created such a beautiful game. The relationship between MC Junon and her mother Marie is kind twisted and unhealthy,but no one can deny there are love filled with this relationship.As an Asian people who also have complicated relationship with parents ,it's so easy to feel the same way as Junon.Junon loves Marie for her wisdom and hate her for her coldness.But when Marie' s story was started to tell ,I can't help but also sympathized with her .This is the way Marie to show her love ,to protect her own kids from being tortured by the curse of fate ,which she is believed.
10/10,maybe this is not a fun game ,but it‘s too special and precious.