Closed Hands is a deep interactive fiction about a terror attack out now for Linux

Developer Passenger has announced that their interactive fiction game Closed Hands is now available with a native Linux version from itch.io.

While the story itself and the city are fictional, it pulls from Passenger founder and artist Dan Hett's own personal experience of losing his brother Martyn Hett in the Manchester terror attack in 2017. It's a pretty powerful piece of fiction that isn't often explored, especially not in this way.

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Game Features:

• A rich, deep work of interactive fiction - 130,000+ words across almost 150 scenes written by Dan Hett, Dan Whitehead, Sharan Dhaliwal and Umar Ditta
• Five distinct intertwining character arcs, and dozens of additional scenes to fill out the full story.  Follow a single character, or move between them to understand the full picture.
• Nine possible endings to the game, with non-linear progression to get there. Discover everything by experimenting with key character decisions.
• Features a dynamic ambient soundtrack by Ciaran McAuley (RUMA) that reacts to tension and events within the game as it unfolds
• Game theme music composed and performed by Paul Wolinski (65daysofstatic, No Man's Sky)

Closed Hands was developed by Manchester indie games studio Passenger with support from the Arts Council England.

Find it on itch.io. It's free but you can also pay whatever you want.