Highly, highly recommended.
The one thing I regret in this new chapter of my life is the inability to devote as much time to video games as I used to. I often feel that critically acclaimed 'best games of all time', such as The Witcher 3 (I can't wait to play it!) or GTA V (Do I think it is one of the greatest games ever made? Yes. Is it one of the greatest games ever made? Debatable, but let's not get into that right now) require a certain level of dedication in terms of time that I am not able to provide.
Which is why I require games that a) have a well-written, engaging story and b) shouldn't take up more than an hour. And that's where the problem arises. There are few games that fit into this criteria - What Never Was and Marie's Room are two excellent examples of the type of games that I dearly loved and enjoyed. Though I love the occasional all-nighter to enjoy a game like Firewatch, those are becoming less and less frequent.
Answer Knot fits perfectly into those two categories - it has a very gripping story (which gets increasingly tense as the game progresses) and can be played in less than an hour. I won't reveal any plot details here, as it's a very short playthrough - I suggest you go in the same way I did, without knowing a thing about it.
Oh, and it's got a ton of references to other pop-culture phenomena. Have fun spotting them all. I almost jumped out of my seat when I came upon the references to Life is Strange (yes, there are two of them - there could be more, but I spotted two).
The ending is truly unexpected and fits perfectly into the atmosphere the story builds up along the way.
Go play it; you won't regret it. And if you end up disliking it ... well, it was only 20 minutes of your time, wasn't it?
(Review first appeared on my Steam account on 27th August 2019)
The one thing I regret in this new chapter of my life is the inability to devote as much time to video games as I used to. I often feel that critically acclaimed 'best games of all time', such as The Witcher 3 (I can't wait to play it!) or GTA V (Do I think it is one of the greatest games ever made? Yes. Is it one of the greatest games ever made? Debatable, but let's not get into that right now) require a certain level of dedication in terms of time that I am not able to provide.
Which is why I require games that a) have a well-written, engaging story and b) shouldn't take up more than an hour. And that's where the problem arises. There are few games that fit into this criteria - What Never Was and Marie's Room are two excellent examples of the type of games that I dearly loved and enjoyed. Though I love the occasional all-nighter to enjoy a game like Firewatch, those are becoming less and less frequent.
Answer Knot fits perfectly into those two categories - it has a very gripping story (which gets increasingly tense as the game progresses) and can be played in less than an hour. I won't reveal any plot details here, as it's a very short playthrough - I suggest you go in the same way I did, without knowing a thing about it.
Oh, and it's got a ton of references to other pop-culture phenomena. Have fun spotting them all. I almost jumped out of my seat when I came upon the references to Life is Strange (yes, there are two of them - there could be more, but I spotted two).
The ending is truly unexpected and fits perfectly into the atmosphere the story builds up along the way.
Go play it; you won't regret it. And if you end up disliking it ... well, it was only 20 minutes of your time, wasn't it?
(Review first appeared on my Steam account on 27th August 2019)
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