![]() So, yeah, I think it's ultimately just a sliding scale, and translating the same sliding scale to modern first-person adventures it seems reasonable to peg Gone Home and Everybody's Gone To The Rapture as story-led, with The Witness and The Talos Principle at the very opposite end of the scale. Hannah is currently completing a playthrough of the game. They must learn to survive what comes next and hopefully fix the rift before its too late. Set on an abandoned island, which is visited by some teenagers for a party, until they accidentally open a supernatural rift. That has, in turn, led to discussions and distinctions between story-led IF (sometimes called puzzleless, although not strictly without puzzles - Photopia still has a couple) and puzzle-heavy IF (and the extreme there being a puzzlefest, games with a focus heavily on puzzles without much in the way of framing story but usually a fair amount of background to keep the fiction alive!) Oxenfree is a 2016 adventure video game developed and published by Night School Studio. The terminology of that genre has moved from "text adventure" into, more commonly, "interactive fiction" - in part due to indicating the increased influence of story and lower influence of puzzles on some releases in the genre. YOU determine every aspect of Alex's story while exploring Edwards Island, uncovering the base's dark past, and changing the course of your friends' lives.I've always been a fan of the text piece, Photopia, and it's very much a similar sort of thing. How you deal with these events, your peers, and the ominous creatures you’ve unleashed is up to you. The night takes a terrifying turn when you unwittingly open a ghostly gate spawned from the island’s cryptic past. Play as Alex, a bright, rebellious teenager who brings her new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight party on an old military island. ![]() Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. " Part teen drama, part terrifying ghost story" – Kill Screen " A mix of Freaks and Geeks, Poltergeist and the best teen films of the ’80s" – Polygon " OXENFREE: The emotional adventure game you need to know about" - IGN SUMMER 2016's HUGE CONTENT UPDATE: The most mind bending game of the year has new storylines, scenes, and endings, plus a multi-episode behind-the-scenes documentary. ![]()
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