The Death of Erin Myers

It´s a nice little game wich I liked a lot. It´s really easy to solve and has in my point of view a short but good story.

Intense short-story with nice puzzles. Who is into puzzling and fiddling into an interesting case which story leaves you with some goosebumps after completing it will have 1-2 hours of fun with this. I really enjoyed playing the game :)

The game itself is fine - standard point and click fare. The plot/writing however? Abysmal. The protagonist was inherently unlikeable and behaved totally irrationally to the point where I was glad [spoiler]when she died[/spoiler]. I feel like I've just wasted a few hours of my life, frankly.

The Death of Erin Myers was kind of hard for someone with bad puzzle solving skills but not terribly so! I enjoyed it! 8/10

It's really difficult to pull off a game about a character who is as profoundly hard to like as the adult Erin; she's paranoid, she'll steal from crime scenes and coworkers or mildly poison people to get what she needs. Also, she's just kind of uncharitable and ♥♥♥♥♥♥ in her narration. Coupled with the sometimes pixel-hunty puzzles and Erin's nitpicky requirements, I spent a not insignificant part of this going "GOD, ERIN, IT'S A PENCIL, JUST MAKE IT WORK". I still feel like the game mostly pulls it off - the "unlikable protagonist" part, I mean. It helps that we start with a (somewhat heavy-handed) memory of her childhood, which gives context to the whole miserable rest of her; get this girl off the force and into some therapy. I think she'd be terrifying on SSRIs, but probably she'd also be happier. Gameplay-wise - this is a short one, and the puzzles aren't super complicated except when they feel a bit too specific/pixel hunt-y, but I had a good time. Everything, including the bleak visuals, feels soaked through with Erin's perspective, which helps bring it together for me. The price feels reasonable for what you get. I also like that the game jumps back and forth in time. Unlike games that give you more agency in terms of choice while still letting you move around the timeline (here's looking at you, Beyond: Two Souls), here the jumping ends up underlining that what's coming in inevitable. You're playing as Erin, but in a way I felt like Erin's long-out-of-touch childhood friend, sitting next to her and screaming at all her bad choices, like. GIRL!!! WHY DO YOU HAVE A GUN??? Also, I may have missed this if there was one, but I think it might be good to have some kind of [spoiler]suicide tag on this. For plot reasons, I can understand why it isn't part of the mature content description on steam, or why it doesn't come before we see that final note. I just thought it was weird that it wasn't given a "here's help" notice at the end, which is standard at least in other mediums. [/spoilers] I still don't entirely know how I feel about the end. I suppose this is a bit of a weaker recommendation, but you probably know from looking at it if this is a game you'll enjoy or not.

No entiendo las opiniones que dicen que buena atmósfera, qué trágica muerte, etc. Pero si no dura nada (1 hora a lo sumo) y nada tiene sentido. Piensas que estás investigando la muerte de alguien pero no, la historia no va a ninguna parte, los personajes que salen no cuentan. Parece un juego inacabado, una demo, pero supongo que no es así, ya que es de 2019.

Fun and short point and click game