The Fog Knows Your Name

Great game. Great story. Loved the various consequences, and stat differences. However, I absolutely despise the UI. There's no manual saving, so if you want to replay any parts to see what happens, or what it affects, you have to go in a very roundabout way of messing with the files the whole time. It's just really replay unfriendly.

Check out the full review on the [url=https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/allusives-reviews-fresh-review-the-fog-knows-your-name/178235/37?u=allusive]Choice of Games forum here.[/url] I’ll say upfront, even though it has it’s flaws, The Fog Knows Your Name is one of my favorite Choicescript titles. It’s like Stranger Things Season 1 mixed with Scooby-Doo mixed with ParaNorman, in all the best ways. Really, there are few stronger hooks than playing a character everyone thinks is a murderer and getting to explore the conflict around that. Especially in the spooky and believable town that Yeonsoo Julian Kim has crafted here. You can really lean into it in several different ways—becoming angry and deciding to validate people’s fears if they are going to treat you that way, doubling-down on being nice and friendly and pleasant with everyone so they’ll see you’re a good person, becoming truly epically depressed, diving into the occult as a coping mechanism, or just trying to ignore it all and act normal. One of my favorite parts of The Fog Knows Your Name is the author’s commitment to letting the player decide whether the creepy events they encounter are truly supernatural or if there …

Way too punishing, feels like you need a guide not to fail every godamn interaction with obscure stats, with minimal freedom to adjust to take each situation as it comes. Feels like your character stats mean next to nothing and personality / town stats matter a lot but it's not at all easy to decipher what would change the latter or how.

god I wish I could play this for the first time again

The best choice of games horror game. Choices matter, there are quite a few different outcomes for the story based on them and it is clear, wich stat will help wich choice. Very well written plot with balance between explenation and mystery and a great pace. The interaction with the cast fells very natural and their reactions and growth is very well written. And most importantley, unlike other games of this type (cough Fernweh Saga cough) it manages to generate an exellent atmosphere of mystery and dread while giving enough explenation about what is happening and enough interaction with the rest of the cast.

I didn't get the best ending, probably made some poor choices at the end, but this is one of the best-written COG games I have played yet. The romance doesn't get as spicy as other games since you're all teens, but there's still mature themes around death and horror scenarios.