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 A great multimedia creepy twine-like experience about consumerism, July 1, 2017This game utilizes a nice animation of candles that changes throughout the game. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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A barroom back fable about a haunted house, May 17, 2017[Time to completion: 15-20 minutes; this game doesn't work in Google Chrome] Right. Yeah. The whole island was sinking, really. I say island because that's the official term, but if we're being honest it was more like a pretentious sandbar. On a house on this sinking island, you perform sittings to uncover memories and, by so doing, figure out what went on in the house. Four candles flicker in the background of your choices, each one going out as you perform a sitting. In this self-described "barroom back fable", the narrator is cynical, jaded. I got the sense that they, like the titular house, has put their glory days behind them, though having never played into cheap dreams peddled by cons, You can perform tasks in roughly any order, but you have to uncover all available bits of memory to really figure out what's at the heart of this house. Not to give away the plot, but what's happening in the sinking house reflects the island itself: a place that free market forces took over, yet was chewed up and discarded when it lost its value. Bruno's writing belies a keen eye for detail. The house's fallen state shows through its faded, garish fittings; the hypocrisy of the promises that were sold along with the house, in its sterility. Four Sittings is a satisfying, polished tale of urban magic, with the same sort of seriousness as, say, American Gods. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Tight little piece with strong voice and sense of place, November 16, 2016by streever (America) I loved this short horror work by Dias, set on a scrubby little island where rich New Englanders bought cottages and displaced the sheep herders and fishers who once eked out a living. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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