Between games like Stardew Valley and Iconoclasts, we've seen a few efforts by solo developers on Switch so far. Joining their ranks next week is Sally Face, which is set to launch on January 21st.
Featuring a hand-drawn visual style and developed by Steve Gabry – AKA: Portable Moose – this indie game first launched four years ago on PC as a five-part episodic adventure.
Described as a "dark adventure" game, Sally Face follows the story of Sal "Sally Face" Fisher, a boy with a prosthetic face and deals with some intense subject matter that includes suicide, murder and death,
Joined by his three friends, you'll investigate a series of mysterious murders and supernatural occurrences. As part of this, Sal is able to communicate with the dead via the Game Boy-inspired "Gear Boy", letting him learn just what happened.
Whilst it wasn't widely reviewed at the time, Steam users have given it an "Overwhelmingly Positive" reception at just under 5,800 user reviews, which is certainly quite encouraging. In the meantime, pre-orders have since gone live via the eShop, priced at £11.69/$14.99.
Will you be picking up Sally Face next week on Switch? Leave a comment down below.
Comments 13
Game Boy Horror did it first.
That Gear Boy really is frightening.
It annoyed me that the “Dot matrix with stereo sound” text wasn’t aligned to the centre of the screen, but I just checked, and it turns out the actual Gameboy is like that too and I just never noticed.
Looks great, only hope for a physical version, but doubt it
Besides looking like a Game Boy, don't you think it looks a lot like the Game Gear? Hence the name Gear Boy?
That's a pretty cool premise. I'll have to look closer at this.
This is the most blatant case of false advertising since my suit against the movie The Neverending Story
Without that headline, nobody would click. I thought you meant they found some crazy way to use a physical Game Boy to communicate with the Switch. Might want to update that for clarity.
That’s a cross between a game boy and game gear !
Yes, I think I will now.
Is there anything that magic box can't do?
From the "About the game" page:
"Inspired by 1990's cartoons and personal nightmares"
I don't seem to recall the 90's having cartoons about boys with blue hair and pig tails...
Man, I feel old.
I’m definitely interested in this, looks like quite a trippy experience but WHY is it literally FIVE TIMES the price of the steam version?! Even with “switch tax” considered that’s ridiculous. Is there extra content/dlc included with the switch version?
Tap here to load 13 comments
Leave A Comment
Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...