“LIKE IN REAL LIFE, YOU CAN’T SATISFY EVERYONE, PLAYERS AREN’T IN CONTROL.”
The sea is a fickle mistress, and an important aspect of games made by Copenhagen-based indie developer Die Gute Fabrik. In 2019’s Mutazione, teenager Kai visits an island of mutants who live, trade, and move around on boats following a calamity. The studio’s new game, Saltsea Chronicles, imagines a similarly watery world – after the sea has reclaimed large swathes of land post-climate change, new communities spring up.
It’s the story of a group of friends on a journey to find a missing comrade and help neighbouring communities. After an evening of storytelling, Maja, one
