The single keyword searched for is “murder.” That's just what a guilty person would say, right?įive videos are pulled up at the start totaling maybe 5 minutes, and all the videos raise a litany of questions about who this person is, what she has done, where she is right now, and why she did it. One should at least have a grasp of the setup, You boot up the game, and you’re presented with an ancient relic of a mid-90s police database, already keyed into a series of grainy VHS interviews with a shy, evasive woman speaking to an unseen, unheard interrogator. Every word that inches up to what Her Story ultimately becomes cheapens what’s waiting for players down this particular rabbit hole. The catch-22 is that talking about the game involves a spoiler minefield.

It’s a 200-piece psychological puzzle offering the cheap, gamey thrills of putting two parts together, but it is much deeper, darker, and even sadder when you realize what the picture might be when it’s finished.

But that’s where Her Story gets its power. It’s not a moment the game is counting down to, and out of the context-the context I’d built over the half hour or so-it could even be written off or missed. All it took for Her Story to become brilliant was a name.

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