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Just a To the Moon Series Beach Episode

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2024

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Quick resume

The Beach Episode™ of To the Moon, Finding Paradise, and Impostor Factory. But something's off.

Global score

98/100

Genres

Adventure, Indie, Role-playing (RPG)

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    Pros

    • Deep emotional storytelling
    • Strong community connection
    • Beautiful music and art
    • Meaningful character development
    • Accessible gameplay

    Cons

    • Short playtime
    • Limited gameplay variety
    • Requires playing previous games for full impact
    • Lack of controller support
    • Some ui issues

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily out of love for the series and personal desire, not obligation."

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    • Experimenting

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      "Gameplay is mostly established routines and guided interactions with limited novelty or mechanic exploration."

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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      "Sedentary gameplay with no physical activity or health-related features."

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    • Idle

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      "Requires focused attention on story and dialogue; not designed for idle or background play."

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    • Intimacy

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      "Emotional connections and deep relationships with characters foster feelings of closeness and empathy."

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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      "Enjoyable pixel art, animations, and music provide sensory stimulation and emotional enjoyment."

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Intimacy, Survival, Violence, Competition. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Experimenting, Strategy.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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    Last update: 30/04/2026