- It is a game where you clean and restore rusty and worn-out items
- Wholesome Direct, an annual indie game showcase
5Min Lab (CEO Park Moon-hyung), a creative studio under Krafton Co., Ltd. (CEO Kim Chang-han), will present its new work ‘Undusted: Letters from the Past (Undusted: Letters from the Past)’ at the indie game showcase held on the 9th. Introduced in ‘Wholesome Direct 2024’.
Undusted is a game about cleaning and restoring rusty and worn-out items. You must use various cleaning tools, such as scrubbers and toothbrushes, to restore the original appearance of items such as teacups and cassette players. During the restoration process, you can check which areas are dirty, and each chapter ends when the restoration progress graph at the bottom of the screen fills to 100%.
Holsom Direct is a global indie game specialty showcase operated by Holsom Games, a community with over 500,000 members worldwide. As part of the international game show ‘Summer Game Fest’ held every summer, the Holsom Games YouTube channel introduces various indie games through trailers. In particular, it specializes in peaceful and family-friendly indie games and promotes the charm of indie games. A total of 70 games will be introduced at this year’s event.
Undusted’s main character, Adora, returns to her hometown after her mother’s death, discovers long-neglected items of her memories, and begins to clean them. In this process, you may recall old memories contained in the object or discover facts you had not realized before. In this process, he gradually understands his mother, with whom he had a strained relationship.
Gamers can feel a strange sense of stability when restoring objects. The subtle pixel graphics, crunchy sound effects of cleaning tools, and lyrical background music combine to provide users comfortable and pleasant audio-visual satisfaction.
You can also feel cozy in a comfortable atmosphere without competition or failure. Recently, videos produced with this concept are called ‘Oddly Satisfying Videos’ and are gaining popularity worldwide.
Undusted is currently offering a trial version on Steam and is aiming for an official release in the second half of this year. More information can be found on the Steam page.
