Her Story
Sam Barlow · 2015 · Investigation, Typing, Interactive Fiction, Detective, Choose Your Own Adventure
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About Her Story
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Search a police database of live-action video interviews to uncover the truth about a woman's missing husband through non-linear detective work. Her Story innovates by putting you in front of an authentic desktop computer interface where typing keywords reveals fragmented testimony you must piece together yourself.
A Video Game About a Woman Talking to the Police
Her Story is the award winning video game from Sam Barlow, creator of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and Aisle. A crime fiction game with non-linear storytelling, Her Story revolves around a police database full of live action video footage. It stars Viva Seifert, actress and one half of the band Joe Gideon and the Shark.
Her Story sits you in front of a mothballed desktop computer that’s logged into a police database of video footage. The footage covers seven interviews from 1994 in which a British woman is interviewed about her missing husband. Explore the database by typing search terms, watch the clips where she speaks those words and piece together her story.
Unlike anything you've played before, Her Story is an involving and moving experience. A game that asks you to listen.
Her Story is the award winning video game from Sam Barlow, creator of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and Aisle. A crime fiction game with non-linear storytelling, Her Story revolves around a police database full of live action video footage. It stars Viva Seifert, actress and one half of the band Joe Gideon and the Shark.
How does it work?
Her Story sits you in front of a mothballed desktop computer that’s logged into a police database of video footage. The footage covers seven interviews from 1994 in which a British woman is interviewed about her missing husband. Explore the database by typing search terms, watch the clips where she speaks those words and piece together her story.
Unlike anything you've played before, Her Story is an involving and moving experience. A game that asks you to listen.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Hands down one of the BEST stories in any game I've ever played. At first I thought it was pretty mediocre, but as the story kept going and as reveal after reveal piled up it turned into something absolutely incredible. The way you find the clips too is amazing, having to piece together words from earlier clips makes you feel like a genius sometimes. And seeing one clip at the end and not really getting what shes saying and then watching a later clip and having everything click is FANTASTIC. The achievements are good too and pretty fun to get.
While I did play it after IMMORTALITY so it felt like a significant step down in some ways, Her Story is still a captivating ride through one woman's wild and bizarre personal story, that somehow still feels relatable. So much relies on the one and only acting performance by Viva Seifert, and she nails it.
so so
Fun and short detective game using a retro MacOS-type desktop and FMV clips. You must piece together the narratives and timeline using a search box, which only references the transcripts of the 271 video clips. I had multiple moments of realization that forced me to change my assumptions and investigation methods, and the music and sound design were good.
It's more like an interactive story than a true game, but it was enjoyable.
An excellent puzzle game, in which you try solve a mystery piece by piece by viewing police interrogation parts. Both the writing and the acting are really good. Worth to give it a shot
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