We are not video game developers. We can't fully appreciate the sacrifices, the time invested, and the compromises that some creators must accept. Unfortunately, not all projects make it to the finish line, especially when they end up being used as bargaining chips by executives who don't understand anything. Small Radios Big Televisions is one of those projects. Created by Owen Deery for Adult Swim Games, the people at Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed its removal from Steam and the PlayStation Store due to a restructuring process... but the developer decided to share it for free with the public.
Anyone who has closely followed the Warner Bros. Discovery merger up to this point knows that the process was not very "delicate". From abandoning entire films to purging thousands of seasons from other stores eliminating historic brands and canceling animated series, its restructuring has been massive, and everything seems to indicate that it is far from over.
The developer Owen Deery, responsible for the game Small Radios Big Televisions for Adult Swim Games, received an official email from Warner indicating that his title would be removed from Steam and the PlayStation Store due to "business changes". Within the next sixty days, it will no longer be possible to purchase legal copies, so Deery decided to share the PC version for free on the official site of his studio Fire Face before it disappears... and we definitely think it deserves a chance.
Small Radios Big Televisions: A Mystery of Factories and Cassettes
The game doesn't give too much information at first. Our goal is to explore a series of abandoned factories and overcome obstacles, but this is only possible with the help of strange cassettes that we find along the way. The player, called TD-525, is not a normal Walkman: Each cassette transports us to a different place, clearly identified on its label. Beautiful places, fields, streams, forests... but there we must collect green polyhedra that open special doors.
The problem is that some polyhedra are more hidden, and that's when magnets come into play. As we know well, bringing a magnet near any magnetic tape is a terrible idea, but in Small Radios Big Televisions we must use them to corrupt the content of the cassettes and change the scenarios. Beauty gives way to chaos, errors, darkness. Analog refuges become nightmares... but we must enter them.
Finally we reach the lenses, hidden in the ventilation of the factories. With their help we can reactivate a laser at the end of each level, which reveals a little more about the story. The world seems to have suffered some kind of ecological catastrophe, and some survivors tried to repair the damage, but the "refuge" of the cassettes became too addictive...
Small Radios Big Televisions only requires a download, and extracting it to a temporary folder. Once again, the game will remain on Steam and the PlayStation Store for two months, but there is also the possibility to buy the soundtrack on Bandcamp, and it's not a bad idea to support the developer in that way. Links below!
Official site and download: Click here
Buy the soundtrack!: Click here
