Game Reviews7.5/10
The Council Review: A Murder-Mystery Island Where Everyone Is Lying
A private island in 1793, a gathering of lies, and a secret book called Al-Azif. A tale of murder, mystery, and the occult.
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Tag: narrative adventure
Game Reviews7.9/10
This Adventure Game Is Really a Domestic Drama in Disguise
Where the Heart Leads review: Armature Studio's 2021 drama-adventure sends Whit Anderson into a shifting realm to witness and change his own life.
Game Reviews7.2/10
Last Stop Review: Three Stories in One, and the Risk That Comes With It
Last Stop review: Variable State's three-stranger supernatural London adventure scores 7.2/10 across six outlets — a dialogue-driven indie worth a look.
Game Reviews7.3/10
Alone With You: A Dying Colony, a Broken Pod, and the Dead You Must Rebuild
Alone With You review: a dying colony, one broken escape pod, and dead specialists you rebuild to escape. Benjamin Rivers' 2016 sci-fi romance scores 7.3/10.
Game Reviews8.1/10
The Lion’s Song Review: Mi’pu’mi Games’ Four Artists, One Storm
The Lion's Song review: Mi'pu'mi Games' story-driven game follows four artists in early 1900s Europe, from composer Wilma Dörfl to mathematician Emma Recniczek.
Game Reviews5.5/10
Before Your Eyes Review: A Story Worth Playing, a Blink Mechanic Worth Skipping
Before Your Eyes uses webcam blinks to drive its story of a dead man's memories, but the mouse fallback works better than the gimmick.
Game Reviews8.8/10
As Dusk Falls Review: A Robbery, Two Families, and Thirty Years of Consequences
As Dusk Falls review: Interior Night's 2022 interactive drama spans two families and thirty years in the Arizona desert, with choices that actually matter.
Game Reviews8.5/10
Pentiment Puts the Player in the Judge’s Seat, and Refuses to Say Who Deserves Punishment
Pentiment review: Obsidian's 16th-century murder mystery spans 25 years in Tassing, asking who deserves punishment. It scored 8.5/10 and won a Peabody.
Game Reviews8.1/10
Dontnod’s Alaskan mystery still has no rival in how it handles a trans lead
Tell Me Why review: Dontnod's three-chapter Alaskan adventure with a trans lead, telepathic twins, and a memory mechanic that makes uncertainty the point.
Game Reviews7/10
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine: Stories as Currency, and the Long Walk to Hear Them
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine review: a Depression-era story-collecting adventure that's slow by design, scoring 7/10 for its folklore-as-currency system.
Game Reviews6.8/10
A Missing Boy, a Rookie Agent and a Town That Won’t Give Up Its Secrets
Virginia is a two-hour first-person FBI drama from Variable State, built on cinematic cuts and quiet restraint. A review of its story, style and limits.
Game Reviews7.8/10
Tacoma’s space station disaster is reconstructed from recorded crew movements
Tacoma strands you on a 2088 space station to reconstruct a disaster from crew recordings. Fullbright's slow sci-fi mystery, reviewed at 7.8/10.