Excellent game. Played with a group of friends over a discord stream, and we were tossing theories at one another throughout - it did a great job of keeping us engaged and guessing until the very end.

The way it's structured is very different to most Detective games I've played; it's open world, so you can choose the order in which you investigate areas, which feels very freeing. There is still a rough order in which you'll find information due to certain areas being gated behind certain keys, but it didn't feel like we were being forced down a specific path until we were finding the last few pieces of information.

It also walked the difficulty line incredibly well - there was only one point in the game where we got stuck, and it was resolved by having a quick check of some important locations for things we might have missed (turns out I'd missed a very obvious key). You definitely need to keep notes of the information you find outside of just the journal, but if you do so, you're unlikely to hit a complete dead end.

The atmosphere is incredible - the game *feels* like a horror game just because of the emptiness of everything and the music alongside it, but for the most part the spookiness stays there as an atmosphere and not something interfering with your gameplay. There are a couple of moments (three off the top of my head) where it breaks this and does something to actively scare you - they are few and far between, but as someone who is particularly bad at handling that I may not have made it through without having friends there to chat to through it. I think I would have preferred it without those moments, but overall it was still an incredible atmosphere, especially given how little is used to create it.

I would rank this game amongst the likes of Obra Dinn and Outer Wilds as one of my favourite detective-style games. Strongly recommend!

Excellent game. Played with a group of friends over a discord stream, and we were tossing theories at one another throughout - it did a great job of keeping us engaged and guessing until the very end. The way it's structured is very different to most Detective games I've played; it's open world, so you can choose the order in which you investigate areas, which feels very freeing. There is still a rough order in which you'll find information due to certain areas being gated behind certain keys, but it didn't feel like we were being forced down a specific path until we were finding the last few pieces of information. It also walked the difficulty line incredibly well - there was only one point in the game where we got stuck, and it was resolved by having a quick check of some important locations for things we might have missed (turns out I'd missed a very obvious key). You definitely need to keep notes of the information you find outside of just the journal, but if you do so, you're unlikely to hit a complete dead end. The atmosphere is incredible - the game *feels* like a horror game just because of the emptiness of everything and the music alongside it, but for the most part the spookiness stays there as an atmosphere and not something interfering with your gameplay. There are a couple of moments (three off the top of my head) where it breaks this and does something to actively scare you - they are few and far between, but as someone who is particularly bad at handling that I may not have made it through without having friends there to chat to through it. I think I would have preferred it without those moments, but overall it was still an incredible atmosphere, especially given how little is used to create it. I would rank this game amongst the likes of Obra Dinn and Outer Wilds as one of my favourite detective-style games. Strongly recommend!