We Are Lost

The Vacation

In the friend group of five, all living together, they have been slipping away from each other and their connection fading away. Until one day, when one of the friends won a competition and achieved a free vacation for her and her friends.

The vacation was so sudden, but they wouldn’t say no since it had been a long time since their last vacation. But the vacation wouldn’t go as they had planned, so find out what happens to this group of five and where their journey takes them.

Story - Content

We Are Lost takes place in one common main story but splits into two playable stories, which might connect further on, but at the game's current state/update we do not know. Depending on which character you choose, the story will be completely different.

The protagonists: Liam – hardworking man whose job is taking up most of his time, around his late twenties.

Landon – intelligent but also lazy, in his early twenties, and is figuring out what to do in life.

The player will be given the option to change the protagonists names and give them a name for who they are to each other. Like, what is Liam to Landon or the opposite, or what is Liam to Scarlett or the opposite?

Depending on what name you choose, it can either be hilarious or messed up. And it is a bit confusing knowing what name to give and what name will be used during a prologue.

The two stories take place in a hotel and on a stranded island. One half lives luxuriously and comfortably, while the other half is quite the opposite. Liam, Ashley, and Velvet will wake up in the hotel, and as for Landon, he and Scarlett will wake up on the stranded island together.

Story - Liam

If the player chooses the protagonist “Liam” they will get a bit more of an active story and mystery-searching. The player will have the two girls, Ashley and Velvet, with him inside a hotel. The hotel in the game's current state has more content and is recommended to try out first.

Story - Landon

If the player chooses the protagonist “Landon” they will get the same amount of hours, but nothing major happens. It feels like it's less content with Landon, but more intimacy is going on.

Landon wakes up on the island alone and makes himself a stone dagger. The very next day, Scarlett appears on the island, and their journey has just started.

Visual & Audio

Visuals

Depending on which story the player plays first, more detailed furniture and structures will be around.

The characters are detailed, including the physics of the body, the texture and small dots on the characters, the shining reflection in their eyes, and the shiny look of the metal piercings.

For texture and body physics, both as in their build and realistic look, everything seems good. Velvet's tattoo over her shoulders and down her arms looks very beautiful, with the ink fadeing little by little outwards from the ends of the tattoo.

But for the animations, they’re stale, they’re colliding with the body, and they’re just a short animation that switches from moving and then reversing. All in a loop, and during these short animations, the player can see some small details as the character moves their lips or mouth. Moving their eyebrows or eyelids. But the dev didn’t want to make them a bit longer or more detailed.

The face expressions and body postures all seem good; it's only the animations that aren’t top-notch.

Audio

Background music is only added to a few scenarios in the game. So during special or important scenes, there will be some sort of music, but during the rest of the game, there won’t be any music.

The current scenarios where there could be music would either be during intimacy, dialog with the kidnappers, important topics with the characters, games, dates, or a disco room.

So on, but not during like normal dialogs between the characters, like if they’re chatting with each other or during the protagonist's thoughts, or basically just simple normal times.

Other than the background music, there are no sounds, for example, cooking, showering, or intimacy.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Story
Content
Visuals
Music
Character Physic/Texture

Cons

Name System
Animations
No Sounds

My final little thoughts

The game is enjoyable; it contains a good story and some what of content but for the moment, there is no big intimacy. The game is not fully completed, and more content will arrive later on. In its current state, I recommend it.

The name system is weird and confusing; it asked me what Scarlett is to Ashley and Velvet, and I wrote “Sister” but then, for some reason, the protagonist said “Sister” to her instead. So I fucked up myself doing so, but still, the player needs to put in some sort of name of what they are to the others or what the others are to them. And not just their actual, simple names.

Rating: 8/10

The Old with The Young & The Young with The Old