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As father Nan cares for his daughter in a 1990s Chinese town, explore local streets, meet residents, and play small minigames.
Released 14 Jun 2024
Explore a 1990s Town
Talk to Local Residents
Play Retro Minigames
The Heroes Around Me tells a story of a family of 3: the hard-working and quiet father – Nan, his daughter Lili, and their pet dog Sesame. Players will experience the harshness and warmth in the simpler time of the 1990s, where lots of stories are untold.
Developed by OKJOY · Published by OKJOY
Set in a small town in southern China during the 1990s, the story follows Nan, a hardworking father, as he spends time with his daughter Lili and their dog Sesame. Their everyday life and the changing relationship between father and daughter are at the center of the game.
Explore the town on foot, talk with residents, and interact with people and objects as you move through the story. Conversations and local errands reveal more about the people and routines around Nan and Lili.
The experience is primarily a linear, story-focused adventure with simple controls. Short minigames, including fishing, appear alongside exploration and dialogue as the story progresses.
Players who respond positively often praise the father-daughter story for its heartfelt, everyday focus, and say the town’s 1990s setting, pixel art, and music help bring that atmosphere to life. Some appreciate the relaxed, story-first structure, while others find the gameplay sparse or the pacing slow. Translation problems are a recurring complaint, and several reviews also report bugs that interrupted progress.
The background of the story is that the author lived in a small town in southern China in the 1990s. In the gradually well-off era, all kinds of old objects and old shops were perfectly presented in a picture of pixel style. It elaborately depicts the environment of China in the 1990s; every picture was carefully prepared that players can’t help immersing in it.
In the concise dialogue with people around you, you can skillfully get a lot of foreshadowing hidden in words; the real emotions come out slowly, and more stories are hidden in every detail of the game. When you tap slowly and relish carefully, you will gradually find that we are telling a warm story the meaning of Hero.
In the process of plot exploration, rich interactive games are interspersed, recreating the playing scenes in the old-fashioned game machines in childhood, recording those once beautiful game times and returning to the 1990s.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 9 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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