Lost Words: Beyond the Page

Lost Words: Beyond the Page is a coming-of-age story of the young girl Isabelle Barbara Cooke who has to deal with her grandmother growing old and sick. The game consists of eight chapters that each have two parts with very different gameplay.

A chapter always starts in Izzy's journal where she writes down the events surrounding her grandmother. This is a playable 2D section that takes places on single-screen pages. As she narrates what she writes down, the words appear on the page. Izzy is also represented through a young figure shown from a side view that can be controlled directly. She is able to move around, stand on words, fall down the page to appear from the top again and the cursor is used to interact. More than a mere journal it is also a sketchbook where watercolour images appear based on the story. These sections largely play out as a visual novel where you follow along the story as it is narrated, but there are many interactive elements.