The Whisperer (2021)

A very simple, short game with a nice, spooky atmosphere. I might recommend buying it on sale, just because of the brevity of its length, but as a first game, it's very solid, and it's always nice to see a Canadian folk-horror game. I especially liked the inclusion of the Historical tour option available in the Settings, as I love learning and refreshing my memory on history, and it's great to see game developers actually caring about and wanting to show off their research! (And thank you SO much for portraying wigwams in the game, not enough indie developers seem bothered to learn about the different types of Indigenous buildings, always defaulting to tippees, so it's refreshing to see accurate representation set in the Quebecois region!) My only complaint is that the historical pop-ups are a bit limited in the game, and a bit short on detail - give me more history, please!

barely any story and nothing lovecraftian.. just poor game mechanics and lots of walking back and forth (clicking like 10 times down a long path with nothing interesting to even look at) to find a few notes that barely give you anything to go on. even the history mode added very, very little to the whole experience. when i went to play this today i honestly thought this was a free game that i had downloaded a while back and felt alright about it. until i realized this was a paid game. not worth any money imo. neither the story nor the gameplay offer enough entertainment to spend money on this. (also this game taking up 3.5gb of storage feels wild considering how little there is going on here.)

The game scratched that retro myst-like itch few can scratch. I think its simplistic story matches well against the simplistic desolate landscape. Murder is a horrific act that is pinned against the horror of nature, and lonliness. All in all, this is a thought experience and I hope this team continues to develop more in the future.

Point & click games have a rather rough reputation and I feel like this game is the epitome of all of the negative sides of the genre. The story was quite confusing, so throughout the whole thing I had absolutely no idea what my or my character's goal was supposed to be. Because of that the game was filled to the brim with "try everything on everything" -sort of puzzles as well as weird logic leaps, which sure is always "fun" in games like this. The game was only about an hour long, but I still feel like that was an hour I could've used to play something better than this.

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Great atmosphere in the game! It's really good, I would had take more of it!