Last Day of June

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User Score
7.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 73 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 73
  2. Mixed: 28 out of 73
  3. Negative: 11 out of 73

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  1. Mandulum
    May 29, 2018
    7
    Five Word Review: Neat puzzle game about loss.
    Favorite Thing: The puzzle mechanic and seeing how each outcome chained into the next was neat.
    Least Favorite Thing: Mumble speech. Sometimes it works but this game goes overboard with it.

    Date Completed: 2018-05-29
    Playtime: ~ 3.5h
    Enjoyment: 7/10
    Recommendation: It's short but it's well worth your time.
  2. SuperkenGaming
    Aug 31, 2017
    7
    Last Day of June
    A Beautiful Story
    Last Day of June is a narrative focused adventure game where you play as multiple charcters in a town on the same day After spending the day on the lake with your wife on your way home a child who goes to retrieve his ball from the road causes you to swerve and crash This puts you in a wheelchair and your wife is now dead. So you go through    Last Day of June
    A Beautiful Story
    Last Day of June is a narrative focused adventure game where you play as multiple charcters in a town on the same day
    After spending the day on the lake with your wife
    on your way home a child who goes to retrieve his ball from the road causes you to swerve and crash
    This puts you in a wheelchair and your wife is now dead.
    So you go through paintings to go back in time to stop this
    first playing as the boy…
    The goal of the game is to know the outcome and trigger events to stop it from happening
    so youll be running around the world trying to stop this boy from going into the road for example at first..
    But preventing this will cause another problem for you to go back and fix.. causing a bit of a butterfly effect so youll be playing as 4 characters in this town on the same day trying to make sure everyones day goes perfect, that nothing could possibly go wrong so that you can get your wife home safe…
    The game in turn is one giant puzzle, it will have you unlocking paths with characters to have to fail on purpose to only go back in time as the other characters you’ve already played as to now have a different fate so that other characters can use items that they needed
    until finally you have the perfect balance of outcomes..
    it’s a really enjoyable game of problem solving with a beautiful story of a man willing to do whatever it takes to save his wife
    The gameplay isn’t ground breaking, and frustratingly you cant skip scenes you’ve already scene…
    When you do go back to play as characters thankfully the game will start where you need to be to make a different choice and not force you to play through that characters entire day again…
    but you have to watch how their day plays out over and over even if you know youre messing things up on purpose for the time being just to free an item for someone else
    This is really my only complaint with the entire game…
    The rest of it I loved
    the story is told through mumbles,
    but will still touch your heart
    I give Last Day of June
    a 7.5/10    … Expand
  3. darkn1k3
    Aug 12, 2019
    7
    Nice concept to talk about loss.
    Really liked the art style of the game.
    Also the story telling was quite good, nice use of body language and sound when there are no speech or faces.
    The puzzle develop in a good pace overall.
    The big disadvantage for me was the waste of time on the repeated unskipable cut-scenes. I got really annoyed by it.
  4. pawq
    Mar 1, 2020
    6
    A beautifully drawn, short story/mini-puzzle game, with a charming plot and gorgeous visuals, but not much else. Unskippable repetitive cutscenes were also quite annoying at times. Amazing music from Steven Wilson is a plus of course, but it can be enjoyed equally outside of the game.
  5. bluebeardtattoo
    Aug 10, 2019
    6
    В целом игра не плохая ( под этим я скорей всего подразумеваю ее качество). В основе игры лежит клишированный сюжет о изменении прошлого, и никакого грамотного трактования я не увидел. Были заметны грубые ошибки искажения временных событий, это меня расстроило. Вообще игра задает очень грустный тон повествования, но встречаются абсурдные ходы. Например, заменить обычное ружье на ружье сВ целом игра не плохая ( под этим я скорей всего подразумеваю ее качество). В основе игры лежит клишированный сюжет о изменении прошлого, и никакого грамотного трактования я не увидел. Были заметны грубые ошибки искажения временных событий, это меня расстроило. Вообще игра задает очень грустный тон повествования, но встречаются абсурдные ходы. Например, заменить обычное ружье на ружье с конфетти...это что вообще такое?...у нас тут серьезная история. Ну и визуально вроде все хорошо за исключением впалых глаз, это выглядит крипово.
    Мой вердикт...Могло быть и лучше.    … Expand
  6. clem666
    Dec 19, 2020
    7
    A creative and moving game. Really touching, beautiful story and deep questioning behind the choice of treating bereavement. Gameplay is cool yet we sometimes lose our way and our time markers. Using the mechanics of time travelling may be truly risky and I'm sad to say that this games kind of missed it. Not totally but enough to make our brains get lost.
    The game is visually cool but    A creative and moving game. Really touching, beautiful story and deep questioning behind the choice of treating bereavement. Gameplay is cool yet we sometimes lose our way and our time markers. Using the mechanics of time travelling may be truly risky and I'm sad to say that this games kind of missed it. Not totally but enough to make our brains get lost.
    The game is visually cool but sometimes too bright and it appears to have some bugs about shaders while playing it on my computer, making some scenes and cutscenes look all weird. The faces of characters are quite frightening thanks to their size but it clearly facilitates their expression of emotions. Despite all the visual and gameplay issues the emotional parts never fail to make us feel what they are supposed to.    … Expand
  7. Animus_V0x
    Jun 22, 2023
    6
    Pleasant and kind of emotional story and kind of cute atmosphere and graphics. But that's really it. The rest of the game is just either too short or too repetitive or kind of annoying at times.

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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. Adventure Gamers
    Nov 20, 2017
    80
    As a game it’s fairly simple and repetitive, but if the idea of a well-crafted, emotional story gives you shivers, Last Day of June is an interactive experience you need to play.
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  2. Riot Pixels
    Nov 17, 2017
    70
    Without much words or lengthy conversations, Last Day of June tells a compelling story about destinies, dreams and loss that surround its protagonist Carl. The game needs more work in some technical and visual aspects, but I gotta hand it to the developers from Ovosonico — they know how to work with emotions.
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  3. CD-Action
    Nov 16, 2017
    70
    The game, heavily inspired by Steve Wilson’s “Drive Home” music video, deals with feelings we all experience at some point – grief and helplessness after losing a loved one. It does a great job for most of the time but stumbles at the very end, as the last 15 or so minutes are unnecessarily bloated and unbearably metaphysical. [11/2017, p.49]
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