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• gamedeal user

  Apr 20, 2022

  The demo for An Outcry was featured in the Haunted Demo Disc 2021 collection, which introduced me not just to this game but to the grander "HPS1" development scene, a tight-knit community lovingly devoted to retro and/or small-scale horror experiences. Having played literally hundreds upon hundreds of additional HPS1-branded demos and game-jam productions since then, and following the full release version of An Outcry, I can still safely state that it is one of the best and most strikingly-memorable titles to come out of the scene. Delicately woven into the fabric of the game's brief runtime and fairly simplistic turn-based RPG mechanics is the stark portrayal of a most suffocating contemporary dread: the caustic smog of fascism growing ever-thicker and choking out the voices of the marginalized. However nightmarishly supernatural the events and imagery of An Outcry become, the sociopolitical forces and characters at their core remain shockingly (almost distressingly) real, deftly side-stepping "easy answers" and consequence-free happy endings in the process. It is, in short, a game for those who cherish sharp and evocative writing aimed at portraying and exploring some of the most important issues of our time, contained in a richly-detailed pixel-art package to boot. ...and if you find yourself playing the game on that recommendation, be sure to also check out THERE SWINGS A SKULL, another title made in RPG Maker 2003 and contributed to by Quinn K. in the form of scripting, world design and graphics. It's sure to pluck many of the same psychologically-harrowing nerves.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 11, 2022

  Very impressed with this game. A haunting political tale that gave me chills, and poetically beautiful throughout. Soundtrack is great, and the fact that the game was made with RPG Maker 2003 is damn mind-blowing. And to be fully honest, when I played the demo back in 2020, it helped me come to terms with my gender identity. So there's that bonus, I guess. Game isn't for everyone, obviously. But I think it's worth checking out. Working on getting all the endings right now.
• gamedeal user

  May 6, 2022

  An Outcry is a game, but it's also an important piece of sociopolitical discourse. If you care at all about human rights or the dangers of closed-minded nationalism, please play it.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 6, 2022

  Honestly- One of the best games I've ever had the pleasure of playing. Thank you for making this Quinn.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 16, 2022

  i was promised a debate with the birds but i got ben shapiro'd instead
• gamedeal user

  Feb 6, 2023

  Well-done, short, RPG-maker experience that bears the lineage of games like OFF or Middens without being derivative. It speaks its own language and gets its point across without diving too much in surrealism for the sake of surrealism. It's a thoughtful concise game that makes good use of the mechanics of RPG maker to support the story it wants to tell. A plainspoken summary of the story for people who are confused (light spoilers): The Unnamed, a nonbinary person who is on the brink of becoming homeless, discovers on the night of an election which may put fascists back into power, that a group of supernatural birds have arrived all across Austria to "debate" their existence and the existence of anyone who does not fit into their vague concept of "birdness." Of course this debate mostly consists of the birds threatening and enacting violence toward their target for not being able to "prove" they deserve to exist. It's a fairly straightforward metaphor, I think.