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Wednesdays

A game co-produced by ARTE France, The Pixel Hunt and Pierre Corbinais, 2025.

"The difficulty isn't talking. It's being heard. Part video game, part comic book, Wednesdays aims to raise awareness of the issue of sexual abuse of minors, while offering a surprisingly light-hearted narrative.

Like so many other children, Tim was a victim of sexual abuse. Twenty years later, Orco Park, a video game from his youth, will bring his past back to him, and with it a host of questions: How could this have happened? Who could have seen it? How did it affect him when he was growing up? What is ‘normal’? Written by Pierre Corbinais (Haven, Road 96: Prologue, Enterre-moi mon amour), Wednesdays…

Demo available on the following platforms

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Technical Info & Short Credits

Format
Video games
Genre
Fiction
Duration
2-3 hours
Technique
Animation
Coproduction
ARTE France, The Pixel Hunt, Pierre Corbinais
Game Direction
Pierre Corbinais
Production
Florent Maurin
Illustration
Exaheva
Programming
Christophe Galati, Diane Landais
Sound design
Virginia B Fernson
Pixel Art
Nico Nowak

Unique features

  • Delve into the echoes of a painful past

    Unlock Tim's memories by stepping into the shoes of those around him and dive into a fragmented mind.

  • An experience open to all

    Inclusive and without explicit content, the game offers settings adapted to people with disabilities.

  • Manage your own theme park

    Wednesdays offers a theme park management mini-game to unlock memories and change pace.

  • Clean, colourful art direction

    The game blends two graphic styles, retro 90s pixel art and poetic independent comics.

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