

Elsinore
Golden Glitch · 2019 · Indie, Adventure, Simulation, Choices Matter, Female Protagonist
PC
Very Positive96% · 33768Metacritic
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About Elsinore
On a summer night, Ophelia awakens from a terrible vision: In four days, everyone in Elsinore Castle will be dead. Even worse, she's been thrown into a time loop from which she cannot escape. Forced to relive the same four days over and over again, Ophelia determines to do everything in her power to change the future.
Elsinore is a time-looping adventure game set in the world of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Elsinore combines strong social simulation elements, a dynamic story that reacts immediately to player decisions, and a world full of diverse characters with secrets to uncover. Can Ophelia prevent the tragedy that lies before her?
Elsinore is a point-and-click adventure game set in a living world where the story plays out around you in real time. Every four days time resets, and you gain another chance to change the fate of Elsinore Castle's inhabitants.
Dynamic Story Engine: Elsinore uses a story simulation engine to determine which events occur based upon your interactions. Lie, forgive, gossip, befriend, or destroy — the actions you can take at any stage are numerous, and the game immediately responds.
Intelligent Character Behavior: Each character manages their own lives, schedules, needs, desires, and plans over the course of each time loop. Even the smallest interaction has an impact on the world around you as it unfolds.
Learn from Previous Loops: Whenever a time loop resets, Ophelia remembers anything she has learned from the previous world, allowing you to access new ways to play.
Use Your Influence: Understanding each character's motivations isn't just part of the story. It's necessary for Ophelia's survival. Characters are complex and have long histories with each other; all of them are keeping secrets.
Life-or-Death Decisions: In a Shakespearean world, most roads end in tragedy, and characters are quick to meet a grisly fate. Hard decisions and terrible trials force players to think on their feet.
Elsinore is a time-looping adventure game set in the world of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Elsinore combines strong social simulation elements, a dynamic story that reacts immediately to player decisions, and a world full of diverse characters with secrets to uncover. Can Ophelia prevent the tragedy that lies before her?
Gameplay
Elsinore is a point-and-click adventure game set in a living world where the story plays out around you in real time. Every four days time resets, and you gain another chance to change the fate of Elsinore Castle's inhabitants.
Dynamic Story Engine: Elsinore uses a story simulation engine to determine which events occur based upon your interactions. Lie, forgive, gossip, befriend, or destroy — the actions you can take at any stage are numerous, and the game immediately responds.
Intelligent Character Behavior: Each character manages their own lives, schedules, needs, desires, and plans over the course of each time loop. Even the smallest interaction has an impact on the world around you as it unfolds.
Learn from Previous Loops: Whenever a time loop resets, Ophelia remembers anything she has learned from the previous world, allowing you to access new ways to play.
Use Your Influence: Understanding each character's motivations isn't just part of the story. It's necessary for Ophelia's survival. Characters are complex and have long histories with each other; all of them are keeping secrets.
Life-or-Death Decisions: In a Shakespearean world, most roads end in tragedy, and characters are quick to meet a grisly fate. Hard decisions and terrible trials force players to think on their feet.
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What Steam players say
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✦ AI summary
Elsinore is praised as a thoughtful timeloop narrative with compelling characters and multiple endings that reward repeated playthroughs as players uncover new story layers and character depths. While players consistently highlight the engaging story and emotional impact of the repetition mechanic, some note the game feels a bit janky in execution, though this doesn't significantly detract from the overall experience for most.
About 10-12 hours of this game were fun to decently fun. Then the lack of event/dialogue skip gradually became incredibly grinding, which is, as other people have mentioned, I guess a good way to simulate Ophelia going increasingly madder over the loops. Still, I probably would have kept it as a rec even with the grind if there were some way to see all endings without clearing data and replaying the whole grindy mess: save states? redo? whatever? But I just couldn't take the thought of playing it again and I can't rec a game that left me feeling like that.
Absolutely loving it. So underrated
A bit janky but very interesting
i like that the more you play the more you learn about each character,how when you think you've got it figured out it throws you for a loop. I like the different endings. How I tried being nice at first then the madness o the repetition takes you to other place.
A dense and thoughtful tragedy.
Elsinore is a great timeloop game with great characters and story.
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