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DeveloperLICHAO
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Return to a small Chinese town around 1998 as a boy or girl. Play marbles, share snacks, and follow Mum's call home. From school days to New Year dumplings and summer trips, relive childhood through hands-on play, familiar friends, and everyday choices.
Please understand the current state before buyingChinese Childhood is still a playable idea prototype. Many details of its activities, character animation, visuals, sound, and interactions have not yet been polished, and you may encounter rough edges or bugs. Please try the free demo to judge the experience as it is today. Once Early Access is available, consider buying only if you value the existing content, want to support the project, and can comfortably afford it. Please do not buy solely on the expectation of future updates. There is no pressure to purchase: playing the free demo and sharing honest feedback helps the project too.
Tell me what you enjoyed and what did not work for you. For issue reports, please include the game version, location, steps, and screenshots where possible.Take the long way home, one more time.After the school bell, the important things could be as small as a glass marble, a few coins for the corner shop, or Mum calling you home before dark.
Chinese Childhood is a single-player childhood life game set around 1998 in a fictional small town in central Anhui, China. Hand-painted HD-2D streets, familiar friends, and little everyday responses bring back moments that once felt ordinary.Stay and play with your friendsAim, adjust your power, and flick a marble. Watch it collide and roll toward the pit, then wait for a friend's turn. Practice first, or agree to play for keeps with your friends: the marbles you win or lose really change what is in your pocket. Try paper planes, card games, and other childhood activities. Join in, watch for a while, put something down, or come back later. Your friends remember what you actually did.An ordinary day in townWalk between the corner shop, school, neighborhood courtyards, and home. Choose a snack, pour soda into a cup for a friend, sit down to dinner, and wrap a new schoolbook. Tomorrow brings a classroom, a deskmate, and a break by the school tap. Check the map and directions whenever you like, or wander on your own.Small choices leave an echoNeighbors have lives of their own. Stop for an encounter, help out, or simply watch and move on. Return a borrowed toy, invite a friend to your birthday, or decide how to say goodbye. Choices, pocket money, belongings, and relationships carry into later moments and conversations.Turn to another page of memoryFollow everyday life into changing seasons and family celebrations: New Year visits, making dumplings together, village life, summer trips, and memories of meeting old friends again. Choose a boy or girl and spend a little more time in that world after school.
Simplified Chinese and English interfaces, subtitles, and voices. Played with keyboard and mouse. Progress is saved locally.
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