10mg: SLASHER, Interrupted

I'm playing Steam games in alphabetical order, and you can watch my review here: https://youtu.be/LUpFSS9e-y8 Prefer to read? As part of the 10mg series, this game is designed to take only around 10 minutes to beat. Slasher, Interrupted is a visual novel about telling a spooky story around a campfire with friends. While you might have a plan for the story in your mind, your friends each have different opinions about the direction and tone of the story, offering "helpful" advice you can choose to follow, or not. The result is a story that is actually 4 different stories, each resulting in a different ending. There's no high-stakes at play here, just a well-written story with some great character interactions.

I know this game is part of the "10 minute games" collection but still it feels FAR FAAAAR too short or to be more Specific, [sorta spoilers from this point onward into the review] it doesn't really have any acknowledgement of your decisions with any sort of specific endings for mixing and matching the directions, there are exactly 4 endings 3 for picking the same direction every decision and 1 for and sort of deviation. And no matter how much you mix and match you will not get any sort of extra joke or easter egg, it will always result in a "Well that was a shift in tone". I've played many short VNs with multiple endings over the years, and games as short as these THRIVE on having silly little easter egg or joke endings, which this one doesn't have, at all. Always gonna be the "mixed" ending, and I checked every dang combination. not all of the jokes land imo but I know that is just a preference thing

The idea is interesting. The premise is reasonable. The story is simple yet humorous. The only thing I would complain is the majority of the story branches being the same despite your choices, and there only being 4 endings (I think). But that could easily be fixed in a longer, more polished version of this idea.

four of them

A cute VN with a fun mechanic. Deciding why weird direction the story goes in is fun and adds to the replayability!

While this game isn't going to blow you away with its writing, it is a heartwarming and sweet little experience that'll give you a nice afternoon.