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GOODBYE VOLCANO HIGH

PC Gamer US Edition|February 2021

It’s time to play triceratops trumps

- Luke Kemp

You’d be forgiven for thinking that, of the many things a game about dinosaurs that go to high school is likely to be, ‘relatable’ isn’t one of them. Yet you would be wrong. Despite the dinos, this is set to be a game that tells a deep, surprisingly human story.

Goodbye Volcano High is a narrative adventure game. The player drops in when graduation is on the horizon and the protagonist, Fang, needs to make a decision about where they want their life to go. “What this game is really about,” says Saleem Dabbous, studio director and Goodbye Volcano High co-director, “is asking yourselves, if you knew everything was going to come to an end, what would you do with that time? What are the choices that you would make? And who would you want to be?”

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