CWs for What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed: descriptions of violence, child abuse, depictions of ableism, burning alive.
A parser adventure ghost story about unraveling some recent events surrounding a Victorian-ish estate as the ghost. This game is really clever in how it economizes the usual lock and key puzzles of parser games. You receive non-standard verbs in the form of remembered emotions and memories, which neatly resolves the issue many adventure games have of the puzzles being complete non-sequitur. Because of the genre space the game is working in, it's capability to do something more with discussing child abuse and disability is really not that sophisticated, but the game contextualizes the tropes it does go for with sympathy. The mounting pace, the modest length, and a carefully measured hint resource make for a really killer experience.
A parser adventure ghost story about unraveling some recent events surrounding a Victorian-ish estate as the ghost. This game is really clever in how it economizes the usual lock and key puzzles of parser games. You receive non-standard verbs in the form of remembered emotions and memories, which neatly resolves the issue many adventure games have of the puzzles being complete non-sequitur. Because of the genre space the game is working in, it's capability to do something more with discussing child abuse and disability is really not that sophisticated, but the game contextualizes the tropes it does go for with sympathy. The mounting pace, the modest length, and a carefully measured hint resource make for a really killer experience.