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RNS - 17-2024 5th Planet Games, Skybound Games, and Osmotic Studios’ Slice-of-Life Sim Closer the Distance Launches Today on Steam, PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X|S

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 17-2024 5th Planet Games, Skybound Games, and Osmotic Studios’ Slice-of-Life Sim Closer the Distance Launches Today on Steam, PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X|S

# 17-2024 5th Planet Games, Skybound Games, and Osmotic Studios’ Slice-of-Life Sim Closer the Distance Launches Today on Steam, PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X|S

Use your ethereal abilities from the afterlife to guide a community through tragedy in this emotional journey from the award-winning creators of Orwell  

  

COPENHAGEN Aug 2nd, 2024 - 5th Planet Games A/S (OAX: 5PG) is proud to announce the launch of its latest video game, Closer the Distance. Closer the Distance is a story-driven slice-of-life simulator from award-winning indie developer Osmotic Studios and published by Skybound Games. Use ethereal abilities to discover the characters at the heart of a community, unearth its long-kept secrets, and guide your loved ones through unimaginable tragedy in this deeply emotional tale about loss, grief, and hope. Closer the Distance is available on PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S for $19.99|€19.99|£15.99, with a bonus 10% discount offered on Steam at launch.  

  

Watch the Closer the Distance Launch Trailer: YouTube  

From the talented team behind the critically acclaimed Orwell, Closer the Distance tells a story about the connections between family and friends in the face of death. When a young woman named Angela dies suddenly in an unfortunate accident, it shakes the tight-knit community of Yesterby to its core. Playing as Angela from beyond the grave, you’ll use your ethereal abilities to explore Yesterby, unearth the many intimate stories and secrets lying beneath its surface, and help uplift and heal those you’ve left behind.  

Closer the Distance combines engaging sim gameplay with a gripping narrative for a truly immersive experience. Key residents of Yesterby are fully simulated with their own complex emotions, memories, and relationships that develop over time with or without your input. But ultimately, the choices you make will determine the fate of Yesterby and its people.  

  

Key Features  

• Embark on a remarkable journey in which you hold the key to helping your community deal with their loss, using your ethereal powers as the catalyst for catharsis, growth, healing, and hope.  

• Discover the many different characters, relationships, stories, and secrets at the heart of a small community grappling with the fallout of an unthinkable tragedy.  

• Experience a deeply compelling, emotionally charged narrative featuring themes of love, empathy, friendship, family, grief, and closure.  

• Engaging gameplay and choice-driven storytelling lets you affect the outcome of the tale, making each playthrough unique.  

  

Closer the Distance is available today on Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. For more information, visit www.ClosertheDistance.com. Additional assets can be found here.  

  

About Osmotic Studios  

Osmotic Studios is an award-winning independent game development company based in Hamburg, Germany. Always striving to test out new ways to convey a convincing narrative, the company focuses on story-centric games with socially relevant and meaningful topics at their hearts. Best-known is Osmotic Studios’ debut game Orwell, released in 2016, putting players in the shoes of a government agent in the eponymous surveillance program, tasked with spying on suspect persons by going through their online documents and files and listening in on their chats and phone calls. Orwell received widespread critical acclaim and recognition from The Game Awards, the Independent Games Festival, and SXSW Gaming.