Umurangi Generation

 PC
User Score
7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 11 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11

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  1. Chastizer
    May 24, 2022
    9
    Umurangi Generation is a short and sweet photography game that beautifully parallels the dystopia that plagues modern day society. Despite that, it also effortlessly showcases such small moments that keep us human throughout these great times of anguish and pain.

    While the gameplay itself isn't innovative, the incredible environmental storytelling and interesting atmosphere in the    Umurangi Generation is a short and sweet photography game that beautifully parallels the dystopia that plagues modern day society. Despite that, it also effortlessly showcases such small moments that keep us human throughout these great times of anguish and pain.

    While the gameplay itself isn't innovative, the incredible environmental storytelling and interesting atmosphere in the environments more than make up for that. Awesome video game.    … Expand

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Metascore
84

Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Cubed3
    Feb 23, 2021
    50
    Put the neat PS1-era retro visuals, its strong atmosphere, and the meaty and fits-like-a-glove OST aside, and what's left is a first-person photography sim that's charming, but not fun. Exploration should be engrossing and challenging, but is just boring and unpolished, and taking photos, basically the core of whole thing, is an unimaginative chore that doesn't put your skills to the test - it just puts you to sleep. It's hard to hate this, though, as it's an obvious labour of love that simply didn't manage to be as entertaining as it could be.
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  2. GameCritics
    Dec 16, 2020
    95
    I won’t say that Umurangi Generation is the best game of 2020, but it’s almost certainly the most relevant, and not just for its most apropos parallels (like an abundance of face masks). This game is a sobering plea of the disaffected youth, and real-world events have given us countless reasons to lose faith in the idiots our parents put in charge. It’s only fitting that the teens at the core of this story never actually speak, because they were deprived a voice by the people who built this terrible future for them.
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  3. GameSpot
    Aug 7, 2020
    90
    Not only is the game a realization of our anxieties about our current, looming future, it's also a powerful evocation of the corporatist state that threatens to overrun our lives, and a startling statement of resistance against them. For a game that's ostensibly about photography, Umurangi Generation achieves so much more.
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