CAN YOU SEE IT? In the first game of The Working Parts, a lone frog descends into the depths of a flooded forest, not yet knowing the full extent of its tragedy. To survive in a brutal, oxygen-obsessed ecosystem, you must help it see the patterns and hidden truths that make up the system - horrible as they may be. Kotaku says: "They Breathe is proof that you don't need realistic graphics or complicated gameplay to tell a horrifying story."
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Dec 5, 2012 News
The Winter Bundle
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Dec 4, 2012 News
A peek at the Working Parts' upcoming adventure...
Everything is happening at once! In the midst of re-releasing They Breathe, Steam Greenlight pops up and The Working Parts immediately mobilize to unveil our next project, three years in the making.
Aug 31, 2012 News
They Breathe Released on Desura
A lone frog descends into the depths of a flooded forest, not yet knowing the full extent of its tragedy.
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For some reason the size of the game window doesn't fit my screen.
The whole bottom of the game is missing after I started to play.
There are also no options to change that.
Some advice?
Found a way by myself, I changed the game to wondowed mode.
This game is actually a lot of fun, so I created a Youtube Video about it.
This game have plentiful narrative without single text line. I like it.
I thought this was really creepy, I mean at first I didn't expect it to be, and when the creatures came I was like *shrug* isn't that bad.. but.. when I found out what makes the creature I was a bit horrified for a bit. Yes the game is a bit confusing at first, but it's not a lot to take in and confuse you. The creatures don't like air, so if they hit too many air bubbles facing you they will die. The "cow form" as people seem to call it will be made stronger by the air bubble (If you think about it, that makes sense) and so will charge at you. But since those rely on the head section it eventually will run out of air. My one complaint is figuring what to do at the end, you really should have some notification, or an example that happens because I just kept killing the creatures until I thought "I need to do something else don't I?"
Like this game, but just a few questions and suggestions. Are we supposed to save the other frogs or let them die? And what makes the weird moose die? So far I've only been dodging them while trying to get bubbles and waiting for them to die, but I just want to know if it's a matter of evading them long enough or is there something else I should do when I meet the moose. Also it's kind of annoying that I have to start again if I close the game, but on the okay side it adds to the atmophere (still would rather there be a checkpoint system or save though)
Glad you like it!
About the other frogs: It's really up to you. The other frogs interact with the other creatures, which could be good or bad for you, so there's a tactical choice for you from fight to fight. As for whether you feel morally compelled to do one or the other, we can't say.
The weird moose do die when they run out of oxygen. Like the frogs and you (though you get a second wind, of sorts).
The game is short enough that we figured most people will go through with it in one playthrough, and if they don't it shouldn't take them more than a couple of minutes to reach were they where. We apologize for anyone feeling too negatively about this, though. We hate wasting people's time.
It looks like the baby on Nirvana's Nevermind cover ! ;)
That makes me want to buy this game.
I don't get it, what genre would you put this game into?
For what it's worth, the full game is essentially the same gameplay, but with different creatures throughout, and I think I'd almost rather classify it as a puzzle game since the way to proceed is by figuring out how each creature lives and how to manipulate it into dying so you can progress. I actually like that approach to the gameplay, but I think it's a very polarizing premise.