Last Day of June: Hands-on with a beautiful, wordless, and sad work of art

Italian independent studio Ovosonico and indie publisher 505 Games are quite serious about using art to set the mood in the their upcoming PC and PlayStation 4 game, Last Day of June. The game is like an interactive Impressionist painting, where the scenery and the characters come alive. It has an emotional story that challenges players to answer the question, “What would you do to save the one you love?”

I played the initial part of the game in a hands-on preview. The game dazzles you with bright, orange colors that accompany the happy scenes, and it has equally mesmerizing black and blue scenery in the darker scenes, after the woman in the game, June, dies in a car accident. After a scene that depicts the happy life of the couple before the accident, you play as Carl, the grieving spouse who has to get around in a wheelchair.