Pentiment

Beautiful game

A master class in story telling. Highly recommend if you enjoyed something like Disco Elysium.

"I want a game that uses Disco Elysium's insanely well crafted narrative system and wonderful writing...but it's about a young witch trying to solve the disappearance of [their] neighbor's cat in a small village in the Alps." - Twitter User Probably the closet existing game (as of 2026) to that concept. * Small village in the Alps? Check. * Young witch? Well, Andreas can get into esoteric theology and witchcraft if you save the book so check? * Cats? Plenty of them, check. * Neighbors? Don't even get me started. * Romance? Czech. This is a game for medieval history nerds like me, apparently Josh Sawyer has a masters in Medieval European history, and it shows. Slowburn game with time pressure, its the kind of game you need to take your time. Light on gameplay aside the occasional minigame, but the fun comes from unravelling the mysteries of Tassing and its people--and watching them grow. From pagans, to lesbian villagers, gay monks, and enough adultery to make the town of Twin Peaks blush, I enjoyed my time with this game.

A wonderful gem of a game that grasped me completely and would not let go.

太绝了！这部游戏强烈推荐和《天空之柱》一起游玩，有异曲同工之妙！但是本座的文学性和悬疑感更强！ 以下是个人猜想的（涉及剧透） 1、第一个凶手是石匠，因为盲眼修女闻到了森林里的花香，说明一定是镇子上的人穿过森林。但是寡妇的力量显然不足以用一根手杖杀男爵。更有可能的是知道教堂机关的石匠 2.第二个凶手是盖伊修士，他的证词里有一句“凶手是村子里的人黑头发”，非常奇怪他一直在教堂里怎么知道这些事呢？而且凶手撞人以后是往密道走，密道只能通向修道院。因此是盖伊

Really good adventure great with great writing.

I found playing this game to be a really memorable experience, and I'd strongly recommend it to players who enjoy role-playing-type adventure games with an unhurried pace. In terms of game mechanics, the closest match I can think of is Night in the Woods. You roam around town, talk to everybody who interests you, and decide how to pass finite time as you work your way toward resolving an overarching mystery whose resolution matters for your character's friends and the setting at large. That said, Pentiment felt very unique to me, because of its setting, story, and aesthetic. I'm happy enough to play games whose setting is "medieval Europe" in the usual generic sense that there are swords and castles and stuff. Pentiment is a game meticulously situated in 1500s Bavaria. The Protestant reformation is ongoing and politically contentious. A handful of monks are still working as scribes in monasteries, but the printing press has been around a while, and your character is an artist who interacts with people in both those worlds - literally walking between the "old" and the "new" as you walk between the secular world of that time (the farms and town where peasants and tradespeople live) and the religious world (the monastery up the hill) - against a backdrop of even older roman ruins and pagan myths. I don't generally go in for historical fiction, but this game's use of history makes the setting and the day-to-day experiences of its characters that much more interesting and immersive. I've never played anything quite like it in that respect. This focus on history is also an important part of the story. Without spoiling too much, your character's decisions matter - to an extent - but not always to the extent or in the way that you might anticipate, and the acts are separated by jumps in time that show how individual decisions can interact with bigger historical forces that magnify, overwhelm, or invert them. The art is excellent start-to-finish and reflects what you can see in the previews. It was fun sometimes to just pull up the menu and look at the insane animals/monsters in the margins (which change constantly depending on variables unclear to me). All in all I thought this game was a unique experience and extremely well executed.