The Death of Erin Myers

Not a challenging game, but a very good short narrative to play through, in terms of atmosphere it reminded me of some great point-and-click Flash games I used to play back in the day. Definitely worth your time, but be aware that the story is pretty depressing.

This is a short little game with pretty easy progression for a point and click. (I only had to look up a walk through once.) It also tells a decent story, and one that I can personally relate to. It is best to go into this game blind, and experience it as it happens. I will however warn against anyone who is sensitive to childhood abuse as topic before playing, as it has a large role in the story. I recommend the game otherwise, especially if you are not very familiar with what abuse can do to a victim. This is not a subtle as a lot of cases of abuse are, but I applaud the game for exploring what it can do to a survivor. Spoilers ahead: The trouble that the MC has in this game is related to childhood trauma and an inability to recover. Instead of working through the toxic behaviors that were put up to survive her childhood, they compounded it and hid behind their job as a means to cope. This is a story about how poorly trauma can be handled and what it can do to a person if they feel they have the means to act upon it. I mentioned in the opening that I have personal experience with abuse, though not quite to the degree that the MC here did. Even still, it left a mark on me, and it has taken me over a decade to work through and unlearn the behaviors I had to survive my abuse. To this day, I still have certain triggers that are still a problem, and are like mental barriers. But the first step to recovery is to recognize that those triggers exist for a reason, and that they may be irrational in situations that do not involve a parent. Childhood abuse is difficult to work through, as there isn't a self before it to look back to as a goal. And on that front, I feel like this game does address that quite well. If a person is not able to grow, to be better than their abuser and doubles down on their toxicity it makes recovery very hard. The MC sees these possibilities for the future, but only in a dream, and once it is too late. I would love to see more from this developer in the future.

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It's very short, I played through twice to get all achievements initially, then had to speed through it a third time when, for some reason, my achievements were erased. It's nothing game-changing, and the art of the people is... not great (they just don't look like they [i]belong[/i] in the backgrounds. They weren't composited well.), but I liked the thought process of a lot of the puzzles. They made sense. Erin Myers, our character, is very unlikable. She isn't written badly, she's written really well as a young woman with a chip on her shoulder; and it makes her perfectly slappable if only I could. Actually, the thing I most disliked, was the way the story was told. It is, for some reason, set up as flashbacks. Out of order flashbacks. We see the dead body before we see them ever alive. It was just strange and I don't understand why they decided to do it when the story itself is fine.

Érdekes "történet", játéknak túlzás nevezni, inkább egyfajta vizuális novella kis interakciókkal. Ha jól emlékszem a Corrosion: Cold ... miatt vettem meg, mert ugyanaz csinálta, na az sokkal hosszabb és bonyolultabb, mint ez :).

A short but dark and compelling story. Puzzles are easy but somewhat clever and logic.

Short, not difficult at all and with an awesome story. For the price is worth ur time and money.