That Dragon, Cancer Numinous Games An immersive, narrative experience that retells Joel Green’s 4-year fight against cancer through about two hours of poet… $4.99 Buy Now Watch Media DetailsAn immersive, narrative experience that retells Joel Green’s 4-year fight against cancer through about two hours of poetic, imaginative interaction that explores themes of faith, hope and love. "This is where we go to remember our son Joel, up through here along this path. We want to show you who he was, and how his life changed us. Can we walk here together for a while?" A videogame developer's love letter to his son; a memorial to Joel Green; an interactive tribute to the loved ones of over 200 of our Kickstarter backers. Can you find hope in the face of death? Gameplay: Using a mix of first-person and third-person perspective, and simple point-and-click interaction, we invite the player to slow down, look around, and immerse themselves in this deeply personal memoir. Featured in: NY Times, NPR, Wired Magazine, Radiolab, Reply All Podcast, The New Yorker, The Guardian, and many others Reviews: "I think it might have changed me in some way that I'm yet to fully understand." -Polygon "That Dragon, Cancer is probably the most sophisticated example of compelling storytelling I’ve ever witnessed in a video game." -Forbes "A remarkable piece of work that challenges everything I thought I knew about grief, hope and faith." -The Telegraph Information Seller:Numinous Games Genre:Adventure, Simulation Release:Oct 06, 2016 Updated:Nov 12, 2016 Version:1.0.4 Size:3.6 GB TouchArcade Rating:Unrated User Rating: (3) Your Rating:unrated Compatibility:HD Universal italodance Well-Known Member Aug 19, 2009 1,527 0 36 electrical Tehran-Iran #2 italodance, Oct 6, 2016 Last edited: Oct 6, 2016 Damn it another premium game of the week. what a weekend, anyone? MFi? Edit: based on true and sad story ok then move on. metalcasket Moderator Staff Member Patreon Silver Patreon Gold Patreon Bronze May 24, 2010 11,065 1,343 113 Deepest Circle, Hel #3 metalcasket, Oct 6, 2016 This is not the first time on the forum that I've mentioned that Cancer is a topic that hits too close to home for me, so I'll be buying this to support the developers. That said, I'm already very familiar with the game and don't know if I'll ever get around to downloading it (since it's so big!), but I urge everyone to check it out. It's extremely personal, extremely heartfelt and something you seldom see in the world of gaming. AppUnwrapper Well-Known Member Oct 26, 2011 4,062 3 0 http://www.appunwrapper.com/escape-games/ #4 AppUnwrapper, Oct 6, 2016 I played a bit of this on console and was thinking the whole time that it would be such a good fit for touch screens. Glad it finally made it over. Now to just make room for it... lemessie Well-Known Member Jan 7, 2015 83 0 0 #5 lemessie, Oct 6, 2016 Watching the trailer is enough to make me crying I have two children I can't imagine how big is the pain to loose one of them... My condolences to the parents... lezrock Well-Known Member Mar 6, 2010 102 3 18 #6 lezrock, Oct 6, 2016 I backed this "game" at kickstarter some time ago. Glad it made its way finally to iOS! May the memory on this boy stay forever. pjft Well-Known Member Feb 15, 2011 1,082 8 38 #7 pjft, Oct 6, 2016 Yes, same here. On one hand, I know this will be hard for me to go through just based on my reaction to the trailer and to reading about the game, but I have been following the game for so long and have always been captivated by the premise behind it, and by these parents making this happen. I have bought it and deleted stuff from my phone to get space for it. Let's see how that goes now... AppUnwrapper Well-Known Member Oct 26, 2011 4,062 3 0 http://www.appunwrapper.com/escape-games/ #8 AppUnwrapper, Oct 6, 2016 Last edited: Oct 6, 2016 If you want to see what it plays like on iOS, I recorded some gameplay. The controls are a little wonky sometimes, but I still prefer them over PC/controller. Also, not sure if the graphic settings actually work. On my Air 2, it's set to Good and doesn't seem to stick when I change it to Fantastic. Maybe someone with a Pro or iPhone 7 can try it? Still, the game looks pretty impressive even on Good. Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube channel Btw, for those worried about space -- the game has all chapters unlocked from the beginning, so you don't need to worry about keeping it on your device. mogwai Member Mar 11, 2016 10 0 0 #9 mogwai, Oct 7, 2016 I bought and completed this game on Steam. It was interesting, and I really admired the first half of it but its overt religious themes were just a bit much for me towards the end.. I'm not saying it shouldn't be this way, it's the vision and story of the creator after all, I just found myself being unable to relate so it lost its emotional connection with me. So yeah, if religion isn't your thing, you might leave feeling a bit underwhelmed. Either way, it's a heartbreaking story with a nice aesthetic. TheGreatEscaper Well-Known Member Oct 10, 2014 1,025 22 38 #10 TheGreatEscaper, Oct 7, 2016 Ooooo, I've wanted to play this for a long time... 3650 MB???? *_* That being said this looks beautiful, it's on my wishlist, and whenever in the future I get a new device this will be one of the first things I download and play. AppUnwrapper Well-Known Member Oct 26, 2011 4,062 3 0 http://www.appunwrapper.com/escape-games/ #11 AppUnwrapper, Oct 7, 2016 Yeah I heard that and it was actually one of the reasons I didn't buy it on PC. But at $5 and on iOS, I wanted to give it a chance. Haven't gotten to that point yet, though. IOSgamer1980 Well-Known Member Nov 6, 2015 432 2 18 #12 IOSgamer1980, Oct 7, 2016 Oh man, I straight up cried. AppUnwrapper Well-Known Member Oct 26, 2011 4,062 3 0 http://www.appunwrapper.com/escape-games/ #13 AppUnwrapper, Oct 7, 2016 It gets worse! IOSgamer1980 Well-Known Member Nov 6, 2015 432 2 18 #14 IOSgamer1980, Oct 7, 2016 I'm assuming the audio for this is from home videos that the family did to immortalize their remaining time with their son once the diagnosis was in/normal home video of big family events that everyone makes of their kids? Really brilliant. I'm probably going to buy this and play it just for the catharsis alone. mogwai Member Mar 11, 2016 10 0 0 #15 mogwai, Oct 8, 2016 I think I paid $15 USD for it on release, which probably increased the disappointment. Steam says it took me 100 minutes on the dot to see it through. Would I send $5 on it in hindsight? Probably yes there was enough relatable human emotion before all the religious themes and some interesting story telling devices that I think it would be worth it, especially if you have an interest in expressions of loss and grief. AppUnwrapper Well-Known Member Oct 26, 2011 4,062 3 0 http://www.appunwrapper.com/escape-games/ #16 AppUnwrapper, Oct 8, 2016 Yeah, I finished it yesterday and totally see what everyone was talking about now. I don't regret buying/playing it, but it fizzled for me at the end. There were some really effective chapters before that and I expected it to get even more emotional by the end. I was prepared for it to wreck me and it was the opposite. pjft Well-Known Member Feb 15, 2011 1,082 8 38 #17 pjft, Dec 5, 2016 Finished it yesterday, after having it on my backlog for a while. All in all, I feel it's an interesting experience to go through, if - as mogwai correctly puts it - you have an interest in expressions of loss and grief, in particular of the parenting type. Even being a religious person myself, I can agree that there are some stronger-than-I-expected religious tones in it, though if we read it as a memoir/diary, I suppose are more understandable. It didn't wreck me as much as I had expected, perhaps because the experience progresses and ends fairly quickly. It was sometimes tense, sometimes emotional, but I'd recommend playing it if you're curious about it and feel you would enjoy it. However - and this is a big one - NOT on an iPhone/iPad. Seriously. The extremely cumbersome controls get completely in the way of the narrative - at several points I was considering just stopping and deleting the app. The last scene in the hospital, where the baby is non-stop crying, it's just terrible to control, feeling more like me prodding every single pixel to see if anything would react to my inputs. Atrocious. The interaction icons are very small, and either do not show up at all times, or just fade out quickly. I would be very glad if there would be "arrows" hinting towards the interaction points, if they're off screen and need me to rotate the viewpoint. Rant over. 3.78GB back. (You must log in or sign up to post here.) Show Ignored Content Share This Page Tweet Your name or email address: Password: Forgot your password? Stay logged in
Damn it another premium game of the week. what a weekend, anyone? MFi? Edit: based on true and sad story ok then move on.
This is not the first time on the forum that I've mentioned that Cancer is a topic that hits too close to home for me, so I'll be buying this to support the developers. That said, I'm already very familiar with the game and don't know if I'll ever get around to downloading it (since it's so big!), but I urge everyone to check it out. It's extremely personal, extremely heartfelt and something you seldom see in the world of gaming.
I played a bit of this on console and was thinking the whole time that it would be such a good fit for touch screens. Glad it finally made it over. Now to just make room for it...
Watching the trailer is enough to make me crying I have two children I can't imagine how big is the pain to loose one of them... My condolences to the parents...
I backed this "game" at kickstarter some time ago. Glad it made its way finally to iOS! May the memory on this boy stay forever.
Yes, same here. On one hand, I know this will be hard for me to go through just based on my reaction to the trailer and to reading about the game, but I have been following the game for so long and have always been captivated by the premise behind it, and by these parents making this happen. I have bought it and deleted stuff from my phone to get space for it. Let's see how that goes now...
If you want to see what it plays like on iOS, I recorded some gameplay. The controls are a little wonky sometimes, but I still prefer them over PC/controller. Also, not sure if the graphic settings actually work. On my Air 2, it's set to Good and doesn't seem to stick when I change it to Fantastic. Maybe someone with a Pro or iPhone 7 can try it? Still, the game looks pretty impressive even on Good. Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube channel Btw, for those worried about space -- the game has all chapters unlocked from the beginning, so you don't need to worry about keeping it on your device.
I bought and completed this game on Steam. It was interesting, and I really admired the first half of it but its overt religious themes were just a bit much for me towards the end.. I'm not saying it shouldn't be this way, it's the vision and story of the creator after all, I just found myself being unable to relate so it lost its emotional connection with me. So yeah, if religion isn't your thing, you might leave feeling a bit underwhelmed. Either way, it's a heartbreaking story with a nice aesthetic.
Ooooo, I've wanted to play this for a long time... 3650 MB???? *_* That being said this looks beautiful, it's on my wishlist, and whenever in the future I get a new device this will be one of the first things I download and play.
Yeah I heard that and it was actually one of the reasons I didn't buy it on PC. But at $5 and on iOS, I wanted to give it a chance. Haven't gotten to that point yet, though.
I'm assuming the audio for this is from home videos that the family did to immortalize their remaining time with their son once the diagnosis was in/normal home video of big family events that everyone makes of their kids? Really brilliant. I'm probably going to buy this and play it just for the catharsis alone.
I think I paid $15 USD for it on release, which probably increased the disappointment. Steam says it took me 100 minutes on the dot to see it through. Would I send $5 on it in hindsight? Probably yes there was enough relatable human emotion before all the religious themes and some interesting story telling devices that I think it would be worth it, especially if you have an interest in expressions of loss and grief.
Yeah, I finished it yesterday and totally see what everyone was talking about now. I don't regret buying/playing it, but it fizzled for me at the end. There were some really effective chapters before that and I expected it to get even more emotional by the end. I was prepared for it to wreck me and it was the opposite.
Finished it yesterday, after having it on my backlog for a while. All in all, I feel it's an interesting experience to go through, if - as mogwai correctly puts it - you have an interest in expressions of loss and grief, in particular of the parenting type. Even being a religious person myself, I can agree that there are some stronger-than-I-expected religious tones in it, though if we read it as a memoir/diary, I suppose are more understandable. It didn't wreck me as much as I had expected, perhaps because the experience progresses and ends fairly quickly. It was sometimes tense, sometimes emotional, but I'd recommend playing it if you're curious about it and feel you would enjoy it. However - and this is a big one - NOT on an iPhone/iPad. Seriously. The extremely cumbersome controls get completely in the way of the narrative - at several points I was considering just stopping and deleting the app. The last scene in the hospital, where the baby is non-stop crying, it's just terrible to control, feeling more like me prodding every single pixel to see if anything would react to my inputs. Atrocious. The interaction icons are very small, and either do not show up at all times, or just fade out quickly. I would be very glad if there would be "arrows" hinting towards the interaction points, if they're off screen and need me to rotate the viewpoint. Rant over. 3.78GB back.
