Don’t miss this indie game on sale – Get Gris for less than three quid on Steam

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OK, so this one might not make your week any better, in the sense that we’re not going to give you the time of your life, but we can at least recommend a critically acclaimed video game at a low price. It’s now off Game Pass, it’ll be back in eventually, but in the meantime it’s on sale from time to time. Now Gris is in the spotlight today.

Feel free to go straight to the deal on the Steam store. You can get the game for £2.55 instead of £12.79, a discount of 80%. That’s not bad, but you still need to know what to expect. But don’t worry, that’s where we come in!

A great little game

I’ll be honest, Gris is a good piece of work, but it’s a tad overrated. To take a rather quick comparison, it reminds me of the returns of Thomas Was Alone, many years before…

Gris is a thoughtful independent game, released just under six years ago. That’s just a few months after the release of Celeste, which was a kind of benchmark in independent video games, but with a great mastery of gameplay.

Gris takes a different approach, that of a more narrative game, focusing above all on movement, narrative (not as such, but on the script, the story, the feeling…) and its sensitive, personal themes. We’re dealing here with metaphor, but I can give you the broad outline. Gris is lost in a world of her own making, and the spaces she travels through are reflections of various emotions, all of them eminently negative, leading us towards mourning. But mourning for what, or for whom? You’ll see for yourself, of course.

‘GRIS doesn’t bother with long, bloated texts: this dreamlike experience is punctuated only by simple command reminders displayed in the form of universal icons. So you can let yourself be lulled by the game’s chimerical atmosphere, whatever your native language.’ Admittedly, this is the title’s strength and weakness, too. It lacks a little subtlety, and has a bit of trouble connecting the wagons, thematically. So you can go on to play other experiences in the same genre, which are all personal, introspective works. And you can play it with the Steam Deck, which lends itself well to that!

Please note that this deal expires on Thursday, 22 August.

This is a translation of a post by Benjamin Benoit for our French publication, Dealabs Magazine.

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