All aboard the airship.

A floating hospital with a mystic grandma as a patient? Narrative adventure Wayward Strand offers this and many other mysterious tales to uncover as 15-year-old journalist Casey Beaumaris. Given three days to wander around and write your paper on the flying hospital’s history, the game soothes you into the calm and mellow everyday lives of the elderly residents.

A rhythmic, gentle, sparse acoustic guitar captures a tranquil and serene setting maintained throughout its roughly six-hour timespan. The game introduces a cast just as colourful as the creamy pastel aesthetic it adopts to tell its story. This choice of art style is reminiscent of young children’s cartoons. When you enter a room, the walls lower down like a theatre curtain, giving the sense that you are watching a play unfold. Not to deter the older audience, in fact, this visual style only adds to its endearment, supported by its choice to focus mostly on an age group that is rarely given the spotlight in entertainment media.

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