Pentiment

Such a great game, from the art, to the stories, characters, history, and actual gameplay. I love that you get to see characters and town through generations. Note that there are three acts, the first two of which play like a murder mystery. This game feels like an oldschool point and click game, but with walking. There is no inventory, combat, levels etc., instead most of what you is make dialogue choices that affect the plot, along with some minigames. I liked getting to pick background characteristics that unlock special dialogue options for the character at the beginning of each act. If I were to make improvements, I would suggest the ability to skip or fast-forward through cutscenes, the ability to run indoors, an optional fast travel system using the map, and more clarity on how the calculations for success/failure are determined when trying to convince other characters of things. Overall I hope to see more games inspired by Pentiment!

One for the ages, absolutely brilliant game!

It's good.

I really liked seeing this little village progress across generations and learning about the religious and feudal backgrounds. Fun game and a great way to learn about this time period.

Quite simply incredible, such a sublime work I struggle to put it into words. The art, the writing, the love of history and writing, it's all just wondrous. Almost a bittersweet game to play as it makes you realise how much better the state of gaming could be. Still, highly recommend! ps I'm busily trying to work out how I can work this into a history lesson for my students!

A good point and click story. It's also great that there are many different narrative choices which will drastically change the story and ending. Solid quick game.