Welcome to this week’s installment of F2P Friday, where we highlight our favorite Free-to-Play games. The video game market is oversaturated, and sometimes, hidden gems fall through the cracks. This is where we dig for you and feature a new F2P game we know you will enjoy every week. This week, we soak in the sounds of the city in Finding Father, a hidden sound puzzle game.
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Finding Father
Your fun-loving father has passed away, leaving behind an audio treasure hunt for you to follow. Turn up the sound and tune your ear in to track down everyday sounds in a market in Cape Town. Embark on a loving journey full of dad jokes and shared memories to the year 2002. The key to it all is just a recording away.
The Basics
Let’s get down to the basics of Finding Father by Studio Bo, an independent animation and game development team from Cape Town, South Africa. It plays like a hidden object with the added puzzle layer of matching the correct sound to the MP3 recording left behind by your late father. A brief tutorial introduces the puzzle elements, but the controls are intuitive and reward environmental exploration.
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If you are having trouble tracking down a sound, you can skip a puzzle with the controls on the MP3 player to work on a different sound file. Most puzzles can be solved by sight, but sometimes, similarly shaped objects on the map will make different sounds. If with one trash can you don’t succeed, click and click again!
Why Should I Play?
So why should you play Finding Father? I play dozens of hidden object puzzle games every year and it was a treat to find this one. This is a nostalgic and somber puzzle game about playing one last game with your dad. I loved the goofy, dad-joke telling narrative parts and the quirky animations reminded me of a Humongous Game. I love games with charm and interactive environment elements like this. My only real complaint is that I wish it were a little longer with more tracks from Dad.
You can take one last walk with Dad and play Finding Father on Itch.io in the browser.
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