{"id":13449,"date":"2022-06-20T19:32:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T10:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=13449"},"modified":"2022-06-20T19:32:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T10:32:29","slug":"20220620-13449","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20220620-13449\/","title":{"rendered":"Surreal cult classic Japanese game Garage comes to Steam in July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Written by. Marco Farinaccia based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20220617-207263\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a> (original article&#8217;s publication date: 2022-06-17 18:48 JST)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br>Sakuba Metal Works has announced that the PC (Steam) version of <em><strong>Garage: Bad Dream Adventure<\/strong><\/em> will be released on July 8 for $19.99. The game will support English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Garage: Bad Dream Adventure Trailer\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8F8eT8oNpT0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>Garage<\/em> is an adventure game that was released for PC in 1999 by Toshiba-EMI. The game takes place in a psychological world that is teeming with dilapidated wooden buildings, rusted metal, and sewage. The protagonist of the game is a test subject who has entered a world that is created from his subconscious mind using the psychotherapeutic machine \u201cGarage.\u201d When he awakens in this world of darkness, the protagonist discovers that his body has been changed into a strange fusion of a machine and a living creature. He must wander this complex and bizarre realm, solving puzzles as he attempts to find a way to escape.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"703\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220617-207263-002en.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220617-207263-002en.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220617-207263-002en-600x330.jpg 600w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220617-207263-002en-380x209.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220617-207263-002en-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220617-207263-002en-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220617-207263-002en-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220617-207263-002en-696x382.jpg 696w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220617-207263-002en-1068x587.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220617-207263-002en-765x420.jpg 765w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Following the game\u2019s release in 1999, the unique setting received high praise from players. In Japan, it is considered one of the three great surrealist games, along with <em>Baroque<\/em> and <em>Kowloon\u2019s Gate<\/em>. However, since very few copies of the game were initially produced and publisher Toshiba EMI withdrew from the game industry shortly after, the game became very rare and highly priced. Even if people wanted to play it, it was difficult to obtain due to the scarcity of the game itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many years later in 2020, the original director of the game, Tomomi Sakuba, started a <a href=\"https:\/\/camp-fire.jp\/projects\/view\/341711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crowdfunding campaign<\/a> to create a smartphone version of the game. The campaign gathered over 2,300 supporters and raised over 22 million yen (around $160,000 at the current exchange rate). The smartphone version was released for iOS and Android in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The smartphone version includes reworked visuals and video, and the UI and game balance have been improved. New chapters, subquests, and extra endings were also added to this version of the game. As the smartphone version was able to include elements that couldn\u2019t be implemented in the original release, it could be considered the definitive version of <em>Garage<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Steam release of the game is a PC port that is based on the smartphone version. According to a tweet from Sakuba, the number of save slots has been increased from two to five, and players will be able to experience a completely uncensored version of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Garage: Bad Dream Adventure for Steam is coming July 8!<br><br>Wishlist now: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FqWXNcpYJE\">https:\/\/t.co\/FqWXNcpYJE<\/a><br><br>&#8211; Playable on your PC.<br>&#8211; Increased the save slots to 5 from 2 and Steam cloud save available.<br>&#8211; Uncensored. Includes all original artwork and movies.<br>&#8211; US$19.99. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hvxd4eoqyL\">pic.twitter.com\/Hvxd4eoqyL<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u4f5c\u5834\u77e5\u751f Sakuba Tomomi \u30ac\u30e9\u30fc\u30b8\u30e5\u5b8c\u5168\u7248:\u914d\u4fe1\u4e2d\uff01 (@sakuba) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sakuba\/status\/1537721374323531778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Steam page for <em>Garage: Bad Dream Adventure<\/em> can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1946430\/Garage_Bad_Dream_Adventure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garage is a cult classic adventure game that was originally released for PC in 1999. The game takes place in a psychological world that is teeming with dilapidated wooden buildings, rusted metal, and sewage. 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