The Static Speaks My Name Overview
The Static Speaks My Name Free Download for PC is an indie psychological horror video game developed and published by Jesse Barksdale, free of purchase. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
The player controls the main character as he adventures through his house. The game deals with suicide, afterlife, and sexual desire. The game itself was played by many YouTube celebrities, such as Jacksepticeye and Markiplier.
The game received positive recognition from both indie and professional game reviewers, noting its mature content and minimized duration.
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Gameplay
Setting
The game in its entirety is very small and short, taking place in the house of a deranged man somewhere unspecified. The perspective of the game is through the man's eyes, the player walking around with little-to-no lighting throughout the house. There are a stack of televisions emitting loud static near the boarded front door. There is a suicide note, and a secret room hidden behind a bookcase along with many other writings and pictures within the house. The Static Speaks My Name Download free Full Version.
Plot
In the beginning, the player is in space, floating towards a singularity of static. It says, «Jacob Ernholtz, 31, Asphyxiation by Hanging». The player is then absorbed into it as the title appears, assuming the role of Jacob and playing out the events leading up to his death.
The player wakes up and looks at a poster on the wall. You use the bathroom, and then search for breakfast, to which you must resort to raw shrimp in an aquarium. After the player walks around, the player sees that the character is obsessed with a particular painting, and that most of the doors are bolted shut. We clean the microwave, and then, on a refrigerator door, a newspaper showing the artist of the painting disappeared, the same one with the signature on the painting. He then goes online to a chatroom, with a suicide note at the right of the computer. He types with someone who seems to be interested in him, but ends up being a bot who asks for his credit card info. He then electrocutes the man in a cage behind the bookcase, who is the artist. He then unlocks his closet, and hangs himself.
We see many static singularities in space, with all of them involving suicide. We immerse ourselves in one of them, and then hear unsettling noises as the game concludes and the credits roll.
Reception
The game received positive reviews from both indie and professional video game reviewers.
The Washington Post stated that the game was relatively short, and that it highlighted Barksdale in «capturing the creeping unease that can come from wanting other people's lives to make too much sense.» Patrick Klepek from Kotaku said that the game was highly disturbing, and that he «never played anything like The Static Speaks My Name.» A reviewer from GameCritics also stated that he «had a lot of frustrations with Static» and that «while Static didn't work for me, it's short, it's free, and certain aspects of it are very much open to interpretation». The Static Speaks My Name Game free Download Full Version.
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