The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother
Release date: Jul 10, 2020
Developers: Somi
Publishers: Somi, indienova
Genres: Adventure, Indie
Categories: Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing
Supported languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese

The Wake is the last of game developer Somi’s “Guilt Trilogy,” consisting of Replica and Legal Dungeon. Perhaps it means my life simply boils down to this: “Everything I say is a lie.” The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral—a record of the roots of guilt, and the memories and emotions that chain together three generations of a family. The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer’s psyche and discover the contradictions that define him. Explore a generational curse that has swallowed a man and his life.

Press reviews: “The Wake Explores the Masks We Wear in Grieving.” Indie Games + “語り手の過去は開発者の実話を元にした暗い記憶が綴られ、ほかのアドベンチャーゲームでは滅多に見られないストーリーを展開する。” 8/10 – IGN Japan “가장 개인적인 이야기, '더 웨이크'는 연대를 향한 첫 발걸음이다.” This Is Game