ABOUT THIS GAME
Normal-ish is a low-stakes casual/puzzle game played as your own journal. Each day opens as a distressed first draft of a story — catastrophizing, mind-reading, the usual lies dressed as facts. You sort its claims into FACT (what happened), FEELING (how it felt), and GLITCH (the distortion), gathering supports across the week until the headline narration reframes itself into a smaller, honest claim. There is no right or wrong on any card, no score, no game over. A page that peaks runs over into tomorrow as a carried worry you can always recover. At week's end the truth board reads the week straight and resolves to weather — Sunny, Overcast, or Stormy. Weeks live in a warm-lit archive of seasons. This is a game, not treatment.
KEY FEATURES
First-Person Journal Voice
Played as your own journal in a first-person 'I' voice, where sorting thoughts reframes the day's narration into an honest, smaller story.
Played as your own journal in a first-person 'I' voice, where sorting thoughts reframes the day's narration into an honest, smaller story.
Reframe Sorting Puzzle
Sort each distressed claim into FACT, FEELING, or GLITCH. Correct sorting rewrites the headline and fires a single warm accent; loose claims leave the page unsettled.
Sort each distressed claim into FACT, FEELING, or GLITCH. Correct sorting rewrites the headline and fires a single warm accent; loose claims leave the page unsettled.
Week-Level Deduction
Some thoughts are unsettled and need supports — a note from a friend, a later quote, or reaching out — gathered over the week to weave the truth board.
Some thoughts are unsettled and need supports — a note from a friend, a later quote, or reaching out — gathered over the week to weave the truth board.
Recoverable Flood Failure
A page that peaks in TIDE runs over into tomorrow as a carried worry you can always clear. There is no game over and no restart of a lost day.
A page that peaks in TIDE runs over into tomorrow as a carried worry you can always clear. There is no game over and no restart of a lost day.
Archive of Weather
Each week resolves to Sunny, Overcast, or Stormy, and is kept in a diary of seasons rather than a score table.
Each week resolves to Sunny, Overcast, or Stormy, and is kept in a diary of seasons rather than a score table.
GAMEPLAY
Perspective
First-person journal pages
Focus
Turn-based card sorting / reframing puzzle
Players
1
Native Resolution
384x216
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