Gripping supernatural mystery story
Mentioned in ~1 in 2 positive reviews
“Top 5 games in the sense of wanting to know so bad what's going on.”
Steam review · 13.6 h played ↗
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Very Positive · 91%Very Positive · 91%Night School Studio2016Mystery · Horror · Adventure
$9.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 31 min ago
The verdict
A short, atmospheric supernatural teen mystery with great voice acting and natural dialogue. Skip it if you want real gameplay, hate slow walking, or dislike talky teen banter.
Great for
Story-first players who like Telltale-style choices, spooky atmosphere and character-driven mysteries
Main risk
Mostly slow walking and talking, with cut-off dialogue and characters some find annoying
What players love
Beautiful art style and soundtrack
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“amazing art, realistic dialogue, and the music is a masterpiece.”
Steam review · 13.2 h played ↗
Eerie atmosphere that is unsettling, not jumpy
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“that slow creep of “something’s wrong” works better than any jump-scare.”
Steam review · 38.9 h played ↗
Natural, overlapping dialogue system
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“it's all about how natural and flow-y the conversations felt.”
Steam review · 9.1 h played ↗
Great voice acting and believable characters
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“I loved all the characters, they did feel like real people and voice-acting is just spectacular, especially from the lead.”
Steam review · 17.9 h played ↗
Replayable with many choices and endings
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“I love how every choice matters. I loved seeing all the different endings”
Steam review · 14.3 h played ↗
What players complain about
Dialogue timing cuts people off or options vanish
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“Whenever a dialog choice pops up, my options are: 1) wait for previous conversation to play out, hence miss the dialog choice, or 2) choose the dialog, hence interrupt and miss the previous conversation.”
Steam review · 3.2 h played ↗
No volume sliders; music drowns out voices
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“the music drowns out the voices and there is no way to adjust it.”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗
Annoying characters and cringe teen writing
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“I can’t stress enough how punchable this characters are, and how unimaginably cringe the writing is.”
Steam review · 6.8 h played ↗
Very little gameplay; boring
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“you are just running around listening to endless dialogues trying to make them as short as possible.”
Steam review · 1.3 h played ↗
Buggy climbing, soft-locks and broken controls
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“After the fifth time of having to restart the game because I was stuck in a climbing animation trying to go up ladders or rocky walls you can climb I've given up.”
Steam review · 4.4 h played ↗
Slow walking and tedious backtracking
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“the gameplay is just... talking and walking... EXCRUCIATINGLY SLOWLY.”
Steam review · 27.4 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support3 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7
ProcessorIntel i3 2.0 GHz
Memory2 GB RAM
Graphics1GB Shader Model 3.0 Compatible (DirectX 9.0c)
Storage3 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 8.1 64-bit
ProcessorIntel i5 2.5 GHz
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 / Radeon HD 6750 (or higher)
Storage3 GB available space
OSWindows 7
ProcessorIntel i3 2.0 GHz
Memory2 GB RAM
Graphics1GB Shader Model 3.0 Compatible (DirectX 9.0c)
Storage3 GB available space
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