17-2024 5th Planet Games, Skybound Games, and Osmotic Studios’ Slice-of-Life Sim Closer the Distance Launches Today on Steam, PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X|S

02 Aug 2024 09:00 CEST

Use your ethereal abilities from the afterlife to guide a community through
tragedy in this emotional journey from the award-winning creators of Orwell

COPENHAGEN Aug 2nd, 2024 - 5th Planet Games A/S (OAX: 5PG) is proud to announce
the launch of its latest video game, Closer the Distance. Closer the Distance is
a story-driven slice-of-life simulator from award-winning indie developer
Osmotic Studios and published by Skybound Games. Use ethereal abilities to
discover the characters at the heart of a community, unearth its long-kept
secrets, and guide your loved ones through unimaginable tragedy in this deeply
emotional tale about loss, grief, and hope. Closer the Distance is available on
PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S for $19.99|€19.99|£15.99, with
a bonus 10% discount offered on Steam at launch.

Watch the Closer the Distance Launch Trailer: YouTube
From the talented team behind the critically acclaimed Orwell, Closer the
Distance tells a story about the connections between family and friends in the
face of death. When a young woman named Angela dies suddenly in an unfortunate
accident, it shakes the tight-knit community of Yesterby to its core. Playing as
Angela from beyond the grave, you’ll use your ethereal abilities to explore
Yesterby, unearth the many intimate stories and secrets lying beneath its
surface, and help uplift and heal those you’ve left behind.
Closer the Distance combines engaging sim gameplay with a gripping narrative for
a truly immersive experience. Key residents of Yesterby are fully simulated with
their own complex emotions, memories, and relationships that develop over time
with or without your input. But ultimately, the choices you make will determine
the fate of Yesterby and its people.

Key Features
• Embark on a remarkable journey in which you hold the key to helping your
community deal with their loss, using your ethereal powers as the catalyst for
catharsis, growth, healing, and hope.
• Discover the many different characters, relationships, stories, and secrets at
the heart of a small community grappling with the fallout of an unthinkable
tragedy.
• Experience a deeply compelling, emotionally charged narrative featuring themes
of love, empathy, friendship, family, grief, and closure.
• Engaging gameplay and choice-driven storytelling lets you affect the outcome
of the tale, making each playthrough unique.

Closer the Distance is available today on Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series
X|S. For more information, visit www.ClosertheDistance.com. Additional assets
can be found here.

About Osmotic Studios
Osmotic Studios is an award-winning independent game development company based
in Hamburg, Germany. Always striving to test out new ways to convey a
convincing narrative, the company focuses on story-centric games with socially
relevant and meaningful topics at their hearts. Best-known is Osmotic Studios’
debut game Orwell, released in 2016, putting players in the shoes of a
government agent in the eponymous surveillance program, tasked with spying on
suspect persons by going through their online documents and files and listening
in on their chats and phone calls. Orwell received widespread critical acclaim
and recognition from The Game Awards, the Independent Games Festival, and SXSW
Gaming.

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