The Painscreek Killings

I love a good detective game where I have to keep a notepad next to me. The ending was quite unexpected!

游戏中没有任何跳脸杀，太好了。第一人称解密很有沉浸感

Knocked it out in one sitting. It's a good time.

This isn't a detective mystery game, its more like a puzzle game. You complete puzzles to unlock more puzzles which on the side unlock information that you may be fooled into thinking furthers your investigation. But in the end what really happens is that once you complete the last puzzle in the long series of puzzles, the game just hands you the answer to the question of who killed Vivian Roberts on a silver platter and nothing that came before mattered anymore at all. The game does ask you in the end who killed Vivian Roberts which isn't a test of your logical deduction skills but rather a test of whether you can remember what was explicitly told to you 5 minutes prior You can end the game at any time though if you think you know the answer already. I was pretty confident in what turned out to be the correct answer many hours before reaching the end, but instead of ending early I investigated everything that there was left to be investigated, which eventually lead to the game explicitly telling me the answer that I already knew Deducing the murder mystery before the game tells the answer to you isn't the hard part, its all the puzzles you do in the meanwhile. There's quite a few puzzles where I unfortunately had to look up hints or answers. The game isn't very good at defining the scopes of many of the puzzles involved. You often might be left wondering if you're supposed to already know the code for this one locked drawer or if you're just supposed to keep wandering around town hoping to come across the answer somewhere. One puzzle I had to look up the answer to was one where the answer to the puzzle existed in a note you can find. I had found the note long before finding the puzzle which left me with a lingering memory of seeing something that might have been the answer to the puzzle though I couldn't remember. And this note happened to be one of those notes that isnt recorded to your journal after picking it up. So I wasted about 20 minutes reading through my entire journal hoping to find the answer I vaguely remembered there. And since the note was in an area I had already visited, there was no obvious place for me to look for it, beyond the many many areas I had already visited. I didn't feel like blindly backtracking in hopes of finding whatever it is that I found awhile ago that could be the answer. Of course I should have made a note of... the note when I initially found it, but this was definitely not something that you'd expect to have any importance the first time you see it If you play this you better have a keen eye, because you cannot afford to miss things unless you like backtracking a bunch. In a few occasions I managed to miss crucial info in an area I visited and only realized after revisiting the area again after no longer having any idea where I should go next. Its not a good feeling to not know what you have missed and where you've missed it in a map as big as this. I was left feeling like the game would have benefitted from a system similar to the ship log in Outer Wilds, where the game tells you if there are more things explore in an area

I always come back when its on sale to buy for my friends so I can watch them play it

The game is very strange. It's a mistery walking simulator with a lot of backtracking. The story is good, but lacks emotion. The world feels empty and blant. The music and enviroment is good. There is to much information inside the game. You cannot keep up. The developers warn you at the beginning, that you should have some pen and paper beside you. If the game had some deduction mechanics or characters inside, it would have been more interactive.

10/10 Terrible cuiki de que salte algo con el silencio que hay