Svoboda 1945: Liberation
- Release date: Aug 3 2021 2021
- Developer: Charles Games
- Genre: Adventure , Indie , Visual Novel
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Svoboda 1945: Liberation stands out among other products with its distinct visual style. An independent project that employs hand-drawn graphics and real video footage for storytelling in comic book format alongside clips featuring real actors makes Svoboda 1945: Liberation unique among others products on the market today. Furthermore, this title offers both adventure and visual novel elements simultaneously!
Svoboda 1945: Liberation puts you in direct communication with residents of your locality, offering dialogue options and minigames related to storytelling; for instance if an interlocutor informs of communist confiscation of his farm then an entertainment will offer to develop that land as quickly as possible; similarly if someone mentions forced migration of their relatives then gamers will need to pack her essential items and prepare her journey before it sets off.
Action takes place in Svoboda, an idyllic Czech village close to Germany near which our protagonist works as an auditor and arrives to resolve an issue at school in his village. One resident wants the building demolished so he can expand his business on the newly vacant territory, while the other wants out and is seeking recognition of it as historical landmark status. While inspecting his surroundings, our hero finds a photograph of his grandfather taken during World War II in the attic of this building, taking place here in this township. According to its creators, this story draws its inspiration from real memories from eyewitnesses who survived this most devastating military conflict and its consequences.