Where Sunflowers Grow
A downloadable game
You and your friends are sunflowers growing in a field once torn by human war. The battles are long over, but the soil your roots drink from holds the memory of blood. When the memories wash through you, you share your experiences with your friends.
Where Sunflowers Grow is a game for three to six players and can be played remotely or in person. The game requires ten unshelled sunflower seeds (or ten small slips of paper) in addition to the PDF in order to play.
Content Warning: This game contains references to violence, suffering, and death. Humans, animals, and the land are involved.
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Honestly, I'm not a fan.
This game heavily leans on Ukrainian imagery (the whole field looks like Ukrainian flag, the sunflower theme evokes Svitlana Pankova's words to a Russian soldier) while the story prompt 10 reproduces narratives of Russian propaganda (Russia has been trying, for many years, to present the war it started in 2014 as if it were a civil war; the prompt 10 of siblings fighting plays into this Russian narrative).
Giving that there are just 10 prompts, having 1 prompt with Russian propaganda is 10% of prompts, I feel that such a prompt influences the game a lot.
I guess the intention behind the game was good, but the end result is questionable.
The graphics are very beautiful, though.
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