Fit check
Is Decade worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who want branching historical narratives with multiple conclusions
- Adventure fans interested in documents, artefacts, and alternate timelines
- Players who prefer experimental story games over action-focused gameplay
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking combat-led gameplay or action-focused challenges
- Players who prefer a short, linear story instead of investigating multiple possible futures
- Players looking for a conventional role-playing game with established character classes and combat systems
Our take on Decade
The store copy foregrounds the alternate history, large script, and 20 endings, while giving less attention to the management element: children age dramatically and their abilities must be handled during the investigation.
What is Decade?
Decade is an experimental narrative adventure about sending children into the past in ten-year steps to investigate how the world ended.
Players examine documents, technologies, and artefacts, then make decisions that create multiple possible futures. The children age dramatically, and their abilities must be managed during the investigation. The game explores how movements, empires, art, ideologies, and individuals develop, change, or disappear in an alternate history. Its narrative includes 20 FMV endings, a script exceeding 50,000 words, and 9 unlockable themes, each with its own soundtrack.
How Decade plays
- 01Ten-Year Time Jumps
- Children travel to earlier periods in decade-long intervals while investigating the events behind the world's end.
- 02Historical Investigation
- Documents, technologies, and artefacts provide material for examining changes across history.
- 03Aging Characters
- The children's abilities must be managed as they undergo dramatic changes in age.
- 04Multiple Futures
- Decisions create different possible timelines that can be explored.
- 05Twenty FMV Endings
- The narrative includes 20 endings to discover.
- 06Unlockable Themes
- Nine themes can be unlocked, each with its own soundtrack.
Decade compared to similar games
Decade focuses on sending children through historical periods, examining evidence, and creating alternate futures with 20 FMV endings. Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition is presented as an RPG centered on exploring a strange and dangerous city, its characters, story, and soundtrack.
Decade: platforms & release
Is Decade worth it?
It is worth it if: players who want branching historical narratives with multiple conclusions. Skip it if: players seeking combat-led gameplay or action-focused challenges.
Where can I download Decade?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Decade's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Decade on?
Windows only.
