The Other Half

It has taken awhile for me to write this review, and even still I am unsure what to say. This is a very good game. It is short and easy to play, general old school shooty game rules apply. Top down view, talk to the NPCs, visit the healer, the armor shop - all the normal things. You start to piece together the narrative through conversations with the NPCs around the town / mountain. But that's not what this game is about. The mechanics, how similar Steam thinks it is to other games you've played. No, this game is about you, the player. Are you paying attention? Do you understand what's happening here? You start to notice things, in the layers of what is half said, the scenery that doesn't match and the enemies you face. You think oh, no, that can't be, that wouldn't make sense... it must be fine. Until there is another subtle layer... and another... and another... and you're about an hour in and you realize ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ how the hell did we end up here?!? And now, you see. You see how it starts and how it goes. How it went. And then you try to write a review.

The content warning is a massive spoiler but is also necessary to put the game into perspective going into it. [spoiler]The Other Half is a metaphorical story about a man fighting back his inner demons and learning to forgive himself and make amends after doing something horrible.[/spoiler] The story is great and I like the way it's presented for the most part. The gameplay isn't anything special. It's pretty easy - you swing around your ball of fire to hit weak points on enemies to kill them. It's very awkward to play without a controller and a lot of the transitions between story and gameplay take just long enough to take you out of the experience. It's reasonably well put together, the art is all very nice, but nothing about it really sticks out to me. Good, but not a gem.

There should be more games like this

A dark-fantasy short story, where at half of the plot the fantasy part disapears and the story became dark...very, very dark. Love it.

This ranks among the most wonderfully horrible games I've ever played.

Very nice little game that you could play in one sitting + fun gameplay mechanic + beatiful sound and voiceover + an engaging story

The other half。