I've never played Gone Home, but clearly it spawned a trend of “art-directed empty-environment games” that play as slightly interactive audio books. Draugen goes a step further with a motion-captured human companion, but the associated plot twist falls flat. Draugen also does Hellblade one further. It not only over-explains the power of myth that it clumsily wields – it actively attacks it. The desecrated church (with the unsubtle placard “God is not here”) and the stern angel phantasm are products of a tedious, reflexive iconoclasm.

Reviewed on Aug 26, 2023


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