Know by heart...

Ice-Pick Lodge’s game is in direct conversation with the developer’s Pathologic series, and seems to serve as a kind of inverse to it.

With its limited interaction, Know by heart… may have worked better as a book or film, but it’s a beautiful game with a touching personal story that never loses its focus on the people of a quiet town in crisis.

Know by Heart could have been a nice romantic movie in the vein of Perfect Sense, free from its mediocre gameplay. Still, it is somewhat satisfying to play.

Know by heart is an exciting and well-written story, despite starting out very slowly.

Know by heart feels personal, that’s for sure. Ice-Pick Lodge told us an interesting story, set in an even more interesting place and time. I just wish they built an interesting game around it as well.

Know by Heart features a meticulously crafted story, and its feeling of nostalgia comes from a genuine place, but it doesn't sell its narrative in an entertaining way. Know by Heart involves a character being given a reprieve from their boring job to relive happier times with their friends, but they have only passed their boredom onto the player.

It is a touching and sad tribute to youth and memories. And an instructive parable about the need to let go of the past. Not immediately noticeable, but insane variability, interesting visual style, thick atmosphere and excellent voice acting. I hope this is not the last such project of this studio.

История начинается слабо, но позже увлекает. Своих денег игра точно стоит, хоть это и больше визуальная новелла.

7/10 Русские создатели легендарного "Мора" пробуют себя в новых жанрах. На этот раз это Point & Click бродилка/квест. Графика очень простая, везде 2 полигона, что, в совокупности с другими факторами, делает игру очень "на любителя". По сути игра, как книжка, или визуальная новелла, про какие-то бытовые частные воспоминания одного человека, в центре которых стоит, конечно же, любовная история, изюминкой должны были стать декорации Советского Союза и, типо настольгия, но, если честно, эта тематика уже очень надоела на данный момент, тем более, в таком формате, мне, как зумеру, особенно тяжко в такое играть. Всё-таки мне кажется игра должна быть видеоигрой, либо делайте уже 2д новеллу, либо книгу напишите, ну не вижу я никакой надобности подавать эту историю в таком формате. Подписывайтесь на Кураторство в Steam: ****/curator/37365104/

Misha, the protagonist, is stuck in his monotonous, dead-end job, until one day the routine is **** as his school crush returns to town. For the first time in years Misha regains hope of escaping the ennui of his daily life. A brief but tumultuous episode of the town's life is interwoven with the story **** of childhood friends coming back together. It's up to them to journey down memory lanes and rekindle their friendship, but their memories of the past and the very bonds between them become threatened... "Know by heart..." is a game about accepting loss. The plot, the music, the intuitive gameplay and atmospheric mini-games work together to weave an illusion of briefly returning to one's childhood and inevitably growing up, the feeling of time slipping through our fingers. Players will be immersed into the quiet life of a provincial Russian town, where traces and echoes of the Soviet era can still be seen and heard.

not my cup of tea. the grphics are too minimalist/abstract for my taste and the game doesn't make sense to me. got bored within the first minute.