More than 10 years after it began, To the Moon's story is ending with a 'Beach Episode'

pcgamer.com:

In 2011, Freedbird Games released To the Moon, a dramatic narrative adventure about life, death, memories, and regret. It was a hit, spawning spinoffs and sequels including A Bird Story, Finding Paradise, and Impostor Factory, and later this year the main story of the series will conclude with a new game called To the Moon: Beach Episode.

«The 'beach episode' is generally a trope where the story takes a break from the main plot where the cast heads off to a vacation (on the beach or otherwise),» Freebird Games founder Kan Gao told me. «The biggest expectation with these kinds of episodes tend to be light-heartedness break, and a dubious amount of fan service with revealing swimwear, etc.

»With the To the Moon beach episode, of course, we’re hoping for it to be more than just the trope… I’d been cheeky with implying that with the name 'Just a To the Moon series Beach Episode,' and so far the stuff shown had mostly been fun and games, but I think the official trailer that just launched gives folks a more of a genuine vibe of the game, which is: more pain. Just kidding! And hey, there is a reunion of all the major characters through the decade (despite many of them already being dead from previous games), so that’s nice… and weird."

To the Moon: Beach Episode will in fact include all of the main characters from To the Moon, Finding Paradise, and Impostor Factory, including those who are dead (which, as the Steam page notes, is most of them). It will be a brief affair, running just an hour or two in length, and promises to bring closure to the story that's been slowly unwinding over the past decade—although Gao noted that the idea of an «ending» is a little tricky in To the Moon's world.

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