Hitchhiker is a mystery game set along lost highways, where your goal is to solve the puzzle of your own backstory. As a hitchhiker with no memory or destination, you catch a series of rides across a strange and beautiful landscape, tracking the mysterious disappearance of a person close to you. Your drivers range from stoic farmers to off-duty waitresses, and each one has a story to tell. Clues appear, alliances emerge, and nothing is quite what it seems. As your journey continues, you must decode the events of your past while confronting the dangers that lie ahead. Hitchhiker is a road-trip odyssey about exploring the unknown in order to find yourself.
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The visuals are wonderful! Bought this specifically because it looked so much like Firewatch. The gameplay was ok. The story has its highs and lows.
I think my rating comes down to playing this very soon after Firewatch, which blows Hitchhiker out of the water.
To my achievement hunters, another very quick and easy 100%! Took me less than 5 hours.
My recommendation, worth playing once, but only if you come across a good sale or its on Game Pass.
I think my rating comes down to playing this very soon after Firewatch, which blows Hitchhiker out of the water.
To my achievement hunters, another very quick and easy 100%! Took me less than 5 hours.
My recommendation, worth playing once, but only if you come across a good sale or its on Game Pass.
great writing design on this one, really keeps you engaged. feels like its missing some pieces. some of the stuff is a bit on the nose but then other things are way too vague. didnt love the leads but the rest of the voice acting was really solid. the unreliable narrator stuff is interesting but i feel like a lack of proper narrative resolution left me kinda cold. lots of really strong ideas in here and i like the setting, if some of the main plot things felt a little off. glad i picked it up on a whim
"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real." - Iris Murdoch
Hitchhiker is a mystery game set along lost highways, where your goal is to solve the puzzle of your own backstory. As a hitchhiker with no memory or destination, you catch a series of rides across a strange and beautiful landscape, tracking the mysterious disappearance of a person close to you.
The game is basically a walking simulator, but instead of walking you are the passenger of a stranger's car. You're just there for the ride, trying your best to listen to the five drivers you'll be hitching a ride with and figuring out the reason you are there. If you're not particularly fond of story and narrative games, you won't find much enjoyment in Hitchhiker. Mechanically, Hitchhiker is very simple. You can't move and your only way of interaction with the world is inspecting objects around the cars, choosing dialogue responses and solving some very light puzzles a few times.
To me it felt like the narrative of the game started quite strongly from the surreal feel of the conversation, but after the first car it fell a little flat and boring. It breathes in surreal and metaphysical, helped along by a dreamlike state of repeating scenery, occasional on-the-nose road signs with warnings and philosophical meanderings, but breaths out repetitive, too weird and confusing.
In the end though, the game is very interesting and quite pretty to look at. The game is quite short, so it's not a bad game to play and I would recommend it if you get it off at a discount or from a bundle.
The game is basically a walking simulator, but instead of walking you are the passenger of a stranger's car. You're just there for the ride, trying your best to listen to the five drivers you'll be hitching a ride with and figuring out the reason you are there. If you're not particularly fond of story and narrative games, you won't find much enjoyment in Hitchhiker. Mechanically, Hitchhiker is very simple. You can't move and your only way of interaction with the world is inspecting objects around the cars, choosing dialogue responses and solving some very light puzzles a few times.
To me it felt like the narrative of the game started quite strongly from the surreal feel of the conversation, but after the first car it fell a little flat and boring. It breathes in surreal and metaphysical, helped along by a dreamlike state of repeating scenery, occasional on-the-nose road signs with warnings and philosophical meanderings, but breaths out repetitive, too weird and confusing.
In the end though, the game is very interesting and quite pretty to look at. The game is quite short, so it's not a bad game to play and I would recommend it if you get it off at a discount or from a bundle.
I think there's undeniably something there at the start with the surreal story and limitations set by the whole game unfolding in the passenger seat of the car, but aside from a few moments it all just falls flat.
Very easy playing that just pulls you along nicely with some likable characters but doesn't seem to be much there beyond the surface for the surrealism it presents