You might be deceived looking at Detention, which at first glance appears to be an ascended point-and-click flash game you might have seen on Newgrounds in like 2004. The use of photos of real objects as textures on tweening sprites is an art style from an unmistakably specific point in time that calls along with it a certain level of quality. But this would be a mistake to assume, as Detention demonstrates a level of writing you not only would not experience on Newgrounds, but a level of writing that tends to be pretty rare in video games in general.

Thats not to say that the horror elements or the point-and-click puzzle-solving are elevated enough to make me believe flash games in this style werent a source of inspiration. BUT. If you were gonna play just one game in this strange lil pseudo genre it should definitely be this one, as what starts out as a presumably predictable murder mystery but blossoms out into a highly personal story of guilt and desperation. The fragile lives we construct for ourselves in a world that is often unfair and never quite ideal. Red Candle Games established early on to have a firm grasp on the art of tragedy.