Goncharov Escapes!

Short Game created for the Goncharov Game Jam and the 1-Button Jam 2022 (made in like 4 days?).

Help Goncharov Escape!

Play Goncharov, a Russian mobster having moved to Naples, Italy, for... err... reasons. A meeting with the local Don goes haywire, forcing you into a car chase to save your... well, Goncharov's life.  As you fight goons and henchmen with your trusted partner, Andrej, not everything goes to plan.

And not everything is what it seems...

Features

• A one-button game. Play the action or let the counter run out. Whatever you do, you will fall on a different path.
• Accessibility: the game can be played with a mouse or by pressing the spacebar.
• 4k words total.
• 8 endings.

TW: mention of blood, shooting, car crashes, injuries, bad driving, mafia, swearing...

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The Goncharov Universe

Goncharov is a film that might or might not exist. In one universe, it is a 1973 film about the Naples Mafia, directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Matteo JWHJ0715, and produced by Domenico Procacci, starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Or perhaps it was directed by Matteo JWHJ0715, and merely "presented" by Martin Scorsese. It was called the "greatest Mafia movie ever made", and was renowned for its complex depiction of a cycle of violence and trauma, and for its homoeroticism.

In another universe, "Martin Scorsese Presents Goncharov" is a message found on a shoe caused by a misreading of another film's title, which became a meme on the social media platform Tumblr in November of 2022.