Always Sometimes Monsters

21.05.2014
Critic 81/100
Users 70/100
Always Sometimes Monsters is a unique role-playing game set in the modern world. You take on the life of your character for 30 days as you try and make it from the east coast to the west coast before your one true love marries someone else. Along the way you'll face a myriad of choices that will alter the course of your journey and change the fate of your character. These decisions will affect the characters you encounter and the world around them, but few things are ever as binary as right and wrong. Your unique story will be shaped by your personal ethical compass, with none other like it.
Your pockets are empty. Your life is in shambles. You've ruined your career. You're being evicted. The love of your life is marrying someone else. With precious little time left you make a last-ditch effort to salvage your world. How far will you be willing to go to make things right again? What are you willing to sacrifice for one more chance at happiness? Who are you willing to hurt in the process? Who could judge you? In the end, aren't we always sometimes monsters?

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