The Painscreek Killings

I love this game. It is truly a detective game. Would LOVE to see more like this! If looking in every drawer and crevice, and looking deeper into notes and recordings for clues excites you, this is for you! Love that it is difficult enough to make you think but not too difficult to make it impossible. Love how you are left alone to figure things out. Love finding pieces of the story to create the full picture. Satisfies my need for discovery, mystery, storyline while being relaxing and allowing me to use my brain to put it all together. MORE PLEASE!

It could do with a bit of polish...but this is still the best detective game I've ever played. The hands off approach makes it feel more immersive. It's quite challenging, but not unfairly so, and feels very rewarding when you start piecing everything together. NOTE: A warning to players not good with horror. The game turns a bit scary towards the end...

Game is good for the first half but very meh afterwards. There's no real deduction as all information is spoon-fed to you. The game felt more about finding the right keys and information via visual search rather than deducting them. The characters and writing is rather bland and everyone's diaries had similar writing style and tones. Overall, it didn't feel like a detective game compared to games like The Return of Obra Dinn. However it's still a good detective game compared to more visual-novel-with-mystery-elements games as this game is much more hands on and players are (relatively) free to explore.