Fingerbones- I don't even know why I had this. It sat in my Steam Library with only 1 minute of playtime back in 2016... until today.
The game even tells you that there is no saving and that this should take about half an hour to play, so even at worst I figured 30 minutes was worth seeing what this was all about!
And....I guess it was? But only barely. Fingerbones oozes with a depressing and almost worried feeling atmosphere. But the enjoyment really stops there.
The story is spelled out in notes that you find and read, but the gameplay amounts to little more than walking (slowly) and reading said notes.
The story is fairly typical edgy horror fodder, and feels more sad than scary.
A minor gripe about the gameplay, but you need to keep walking back to the first room to input passwords into a keyboard as you figure them out, just to walk across the play area back to where you left off.... to then walk back to the main area to put in another password after you got the next clue... this is really the only reason this game can take about 30 minutes on your first playthrough.
That all being said, there's promise here. The look of Fingerbones is great, and after looking into the developer I see this was pretty early in their catalog. I'm hoping that things only got better from here.
The game even tells you that there is no saving and that this should take about half an hour to play, so even at worst I figured 30 minutes was worth seeing what this was all about!
And....I guess it was? But only barely. Fingerbones oozes with a depressing and almost worried feeling atmosphere. But the enjoyment really stops there.
The story is spelled out in notes that you find and read, but the gameplay amounts to little more than walking (slowly) and reading said notes.
The story is fairly typical edgy horror fodder, and feels more sad than scary.
A minor gripe about the gameplay, but you need to keep walking back to the first room to input passwords into a keyboard as you figure them out, just to walk across the play area back to where you left off.... to then walk back to the main area to put in another password after you got the next clue... this is really the only reason this game can take about 30 minutes on your first playthrough.
That all being said, there's promise here. The look of Fingerbones is great, and after looking into the developer I see this was pretty early in their catalog. I'm hoping that things only got better from here.