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Tell Me Why (2020)

DON'T NOD

PC (Microsoft Windows) · Xbox One

3.38 from 343 ratings

3562 members have it in their collection · 34 playing now · 2532 backlogged · 158 wish listed

How long? Main story 12h · with extras 11h · 100% 11h (from 24 logged playthroughs)

Tell Me Why is the latest narrative adventure game from DONTNOD Entertainment, the studio behind the beloved franchise, Life is Strange. In this intimate mystery, twins Tyler and Alyson Ronan use their supernatural bond to unravel the mysteries of their loving but troubled childhood in beautiful small-town Alaska.
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Details

Developers
DON'T NOD
Publishers
Xbox Game Studios
Genres
Adventure
Themes
Drama, Mystery
Steam
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Release dates

  • Aug 27, 2020 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One

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Rating distribution

5 stars
44
4 stars
120
3 stars
117
2 stars
48
1 star
14
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Rubisan

Status Rubisan Mar 6, 2021

Interesting in matters of inclusion but quite boring and slow... It feels quite real (it could be perfectly a real world story) and it has some positive and interesting things, but in terms of mechanic or action, you need patience with this one. In the end, I liked the characters and how they were growing up while living again certain …

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Interesting in matters of inclusion but quite boring and slow... It feels quite real (it could be perfectly a real world story) and it has some positive and interesting things, but in terms of mechanic or action, you need patience with this one. In the end, I liked the characters and how they were growing up while living again certain memories of the past with an adult mind/perspective. But... it could have been much better in my opinion if a little bit longer, maybe? When I was starting to feel connected to the characters, I was already getting at the end of the game.

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killerstar

Status killerstar Dec 4, 2020

After playing The Missing, now I'm even more mad at this game. Fuck them for marketing this game as "the first trans protagonist" and then delivering such a sedated story with boring gameplay.

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killerstar

Status killerstar Nov 10, 2020

I wanted to like this game, but it's just too slow and shallow. Conversation trees are more like underdeveloped bushes and gameplay is minimal. I've just spend like half an hour literally going trough archives and then counting cans of tomato soup.

Also, is one of those stories in which you know what's the solution to the mystery (or at …

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I wanted to like this game, but it's just too slow and shallow. Conversation trees are more like underdeveloped bushes and gameplay is minimal. I've just spend like half an hour literally going trough archives and then counting cans of tomato soup.

Also, is one of those stories in which you know what's the solution to the mystery (or at least you get a very strong suspicion) but the characters don't have a clue.

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killerstar

Status killerstar Nov 9, 2020

This game continues to perpetuate harmful stereotypes about twins. Come on! Almost no pair of twins have psychic links!

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andhen

Review andhen 4/5 · Sep 15, 2020

Great storytelling once more by DontNod

I didn't think I would like the game going into it, but DontNod does their magic and I'm super invested in the characters. It's very mature, touches important subjects and feels realistic. Playing as two characters works out well, you get more perspective of their individual thoughts and it makes it easier to make decisions for them. I liked the …

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I didn't think I would like the game going into it, but DontNod does their magic and I'm super invested in the characters. It's very mature, touches important subjects and feels realistic. Playing as two characters works out well, you get more perspective of their individual thoughts and it makes it easier to make decisions for them. I liked the memory and voice parts of the story, and I loved the book of goblins. Very fairytale-like. The problem with this game is that it's too short and has a very anticlimactic ending. I was expecting way more from the way its all setup. But it might be DontNod's way of saying that not everything has to be complicated.

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