publisher blurb
How to Embrace a Swamp Creature gives you an austerity crushed commuter town, friendships debating their continued existence, toxic air, visions of the stench, zombies trekking out of the bog for a pub breakfast, pride and madness; asking “What do you do next?”
In the game you play a friend group of mentally ill twenty somethings living in Swamp Strange, a commuter town wrecked by over a decade of austerity. Connected by train to Leafdon, sustaining the city, being sustained by it, being drained by it, an overflowing drain that struggles to remember it’s a town.
A strange magic pervades Swamp Strange. Breath in the Stench of the weird wetlands and feel knowledge crawling in the dark corners of your mind. You and the other swamp creatures shambles through your routines but you can’t help but feel the cracks in the mud.
Your friend group used to see each other all the time: because you had to. Context forced you together and you became friends through that. But the context is gone. You’ve moved on. But you’re still friends; for now. Two of you had been dating but you’ve been broken up for a while now; one of you is finally managing to move out. Confront aimlessness, confront intimacy, look at what you’ve meant to each other and what you mean to each other