505’s Last Day of June will take gamers on an emotional journey

Massimi Guarini, creative director at Italy’s Studio Osovonico, has an intriguing idea for a game. A couple is in love in Last Day of June, a video game coming soon from 505 Games. The couple gets in an accident, and one of them dies. Your job as the player is to relive that last day — June is the name of the character who dies — and change it so that the accident doesn’t happen. It’s going to be an emotional journey, and one that you may play over and over again.

I recently sat down with Guarini, an acclaimed director who previously worked on titles such as Murasaki Baby, Shadow of the Damned, Naruto: Rise of a Ninja. He told me he was inspired by the film Groundhog Day, a Bill Murray comedy where he relives one day over and over again until he gets the ending right. The idea is the same in Last Day of June, where the smallest of decisions can have a Butterfly Effect and impact the fatal accident.