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.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.