Lovely art and a distinctive atmosphere can only carry this game so far and unfortunately they don't carry it far enough; I just couldn't bring myself to continue to care about Oxenfree. The characters didn't do enough of the heavy lifting.

The narrative system of layered dialogue, while revolutionary (especially for 2016, my god) is interesting and creates a system of very naturalistic speaking, but it doesn't do enough to make this feel like characters I want to actually listen to.