History VideoGame / SignsOfTheSojourner

* VariableMix: The instruments of each location's background music fade in and out depending on who you're talking to and how they're feeling.

* AMinorKidroduction: The prologue shows the protagonist and their ChildhoodFriend Elias arguing over the former's mother's locket, with her stepping in to teach them how to make good conversations with each other, effectively serving as the game's tutorial. The story proper then begins 15 years later, after her funeral.

* TraumaInn: Bartow serves as your resting area to remove any Fatigue cards, which build up as you travel and don't match with any symbol, effectively ending your conversation on a bad note if you're not careful with them. However, you must unpack your things in order to remove them, so you'll still have Fatigue cards if you talk to the residents before that. Additionally, some random events such as relaxing in your truck and playing with Thunder can also remove Fatigue cards.

* {{Delinquents}}: Big Basilio is worried about his brother Li'l Basilio, who [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior joined some gangsters at a very young age]] to vandalize Anka. [[spoiler:His gang will even steal one of your items if you win his staring contest since he lied about giving you Miriam's chocolates if you win. Big Basilio then apologizes to you for his brother's behavior, as he's his only family left after [[DisappearedDad their father was long gone]] and Mimi left them for Theo at the Desert Oasis.]]

In this narrative card game about relationships and communication, navigate conversations in a colorful world reminiscent of our own. Learn and grow through the cards you choose to play. Who will you become? What will you leave behind?

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: ...Or you can become enemies with them by intentionally mismatching with their cards to throw the conversation. However, it's nearly impossible to do this with Thunder since his cards always match with yours, and somehow failing the conversation won't affect his friendship with you.

* NervousWreck: Tomas is anxious about his sales not going well and often asks you in a hushed tone to buy his paintings. He also always plays his Clarify cards by inserting them in between other cards instead of in front of the chain.

* BigDisasterPlot: After a few years with the Caravan, [[spoiler:an earthquake hits the area before the 4th trip, damaging infrastructure and destroying Anka's newly repaired railroad. Elias requests you to get some scrap material from Anka to repair his aunt's coffee shop, and some of the townsfolk play cards with spirals on them to grieve as they deal with the aftermath. The coastal towns also get flooded, and the villagers are trying to recover from it despite the Rilkers' negligence.]]

* TimedMission: The player has five in-game months to travel with the caravan, explore, and/or keep the family store running. They also must return to Bartow before the last calendar day or else their truck will break down.

** If you fail to keep your mother's store well-stocked, [[spoiler:it shuts down, and the Caravan cuts ties with Bartow and removes it from its route. Samuel considers moving out to greener pastures, and you and Elias do the same if you've maintained your friendship with him. Ten years later, you open a new store reminiscent of your mother's in Aldhurst, [[BittersweetEnding but this time, it becomes a hit with the customers.]]]]

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: ...Or you can become enemies with them by intentionally mismatching with their cards to throw the conversation. While it's hard to do this to Thunder since his cards always match with yours, you can still create bad conversations with him by intentionally playing Fatigue cards (which never match) or making mismatches with yourself by pairing the wrong card after a [[ExtraTurn Chatter card.]]

* MultipleEndings: Present, and mostly dependent on the state of the family business. Completing certain characters' routes will give you special endings for them.

* MultipleEndings: Present, and mostly dependent on the state of the family business.

* MeaningfulEcho: In the prologue, your mother advises you and Elias that it's okay if you don't always understand each other, and that a few miscommunications don't have to end your friendship. [[spooiler:Elias echoes this in the epilogue when he reconnects with you.]]

** If you're able to keep the store well-stocked, [[spoiler:Bartow stays on the Caravan route, and you're able to keep your family business thriving. Elias even drops by to reconnect with you after all those years.]]

* MeaningfulEcho: In the prologue, your mother advises you and Elias that it's okay if you don't always understand each other, and that a few miscommunications don't have to end your friendship. Elias echoes this in the epilogue when he reconnects with you.

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: When you first arrive in Old Marae, the port is full of fishing boats, but after [[spoiler:the earthquake]], there are fewer boats because [[spoilers:the Rilkers controlled port entry by building the Towers.]]

* PlayableEpilogue: After completing five trips, you speak with Elias one last time ten years later, reflecting on the journeys you had.

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* {{Delinquents}}: Big Basilio is worried about his brother Li'l Basilio, who [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior joined some gangsters at a very young age]] to vandalize Anka. [[spoiler:His gang will even steal one of your items if you win his staring contest since he lied about giving you Miriam's chocolates if you win. Big Basilio then apologizes to you for his brother's behavior, as he's his only family left after [[DisappearedDad their father was long gone]] and Mimi left them for Theo at the Desert Oasis.]]]]

* {{Delinquents}}: Big Basilio is worried about his brother Li'l Basilio, who [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior joined some gangsters at a very young age]] to vandalize Anka. [[spoiler:His gang will even steal one of your items if you win his staring contest since he lied about giving you Miriam's chocolates if you win. Big Basilio then apologizes to you for his brother's behavior, as he's his only family left after [[DisappearedDad their father was long gone]] and Mimi left them for the Long Gate.]]

* {{Delinquents}}: Big Basilio is worried about his brother Li'l Basilio, who [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior joined some gangsters at a very young age]] to vandalize Anka. [[spoiler:His gang will even steal one of your items if you win his staring contest since he lied about giving you Miriam's chocolates if you win.]]

* {{Delinquents}}: Big Basilio is worried about his brother Li'l Basilio, who [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior joined some gangsters at a very young age]] to vandalize Anka.

* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Airat fights for robot worker's rights, believing that they're citizens, too, since they help in agriculture like real people. He knows the ThreeLawsOfRobotics and is standing up against Rilker Farms' exploitation of them. [[spoiler:After Tosende Canals gets flooded, Maya, a robot farmer, reprograms herself to protest against the Rilkers' mistreatment of their employees.]]

* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Airat fights for robot worker's rights, believing that they're citizens, too, since they help in agriculture like real people. He knows the ThreeLawsOfRobotics and is standing up against the Rilkers' exploitation of them.

* BigDisasterPlot: After a few years with the Caravan, [[spoiler:an earthquake hits the area before the 4th trip, damaging infrastructure and destroying Anka's newly repaired railroad. Elias requests you to get some scrap material from Anka to repair his aunt's coffee shop, and some of the townsfolk play cards with spirals on them to grieve as they deal with the aftermath.]]

* CanineCompanion: Thunder the stray dog can tag along with you during your trip, and playing with him removes a Fatigue card. His love also makes it easy for you to talk to him because his cards will always match with yours except for Fatigue cards.

* BigDisasterPlot: After a few years with the Caravan, [[spoiler:an earthquake hits the area before the 4th trip, damaging infrastructure and severing some routes to the largest city on the map. Elias requests you to get some scrap material from Anka to repair his aunt's coffee shop, and some of the townsfolk play cards with spirals on them to grieve as they deal with the aftermath.]]