Review SuperEffective 3/5 · Mar 5, 2022
Short, Engaging Story
A puzzle game where you slowly identify passwords to learn more about this person's story. Is it intrusive and invasive? Essentially, yes, you are just some person who found a phone and decided to just find out all this person's history rather than.. I don't know, returning it to the owner? However, the objective here is to experience a person's …
A puzzle game where you slowly identify passwords to learn more about this person's story. Is it intrusive and invasive? Essentially, yes, you are just some person who found a phone and decided to just find out all this person's history rather than.. I don't know, returning it to the owner? However, the objective here is to experience a person's story through challenging relationships with family and friends in order to be true to themselves and who they really are (LGBTQ+ focused content).
Story
The story is centered on the phone's owner, not you. Through reading text messages and emails, you will eventually figure out how to unlock the other apps on the phone, and piece together this person's story on who they started out as, the people they loved and slowly stopped loving, and where they ended up being by the end.
Gameplay
It's interactive by clicking through the apps, downloading images, listening to songs, and connecting the different communications together (texts, emails, forum messages). The entire game is only in this phone, there is no other additional element of the story (like giving the phone back lol).
Overall
It's short and engaging, if you disregard the "invasive" aspect of it. The game creator obviously wanted you to explore this story in the phone owner's eyes and understand who they are as a person. LGBTQ+ games are still pretty uncommon outside of Steam, so it's wonderful to explore more of these stories and games.
