![]() The eerie music, the creaking of doors and cupboards, the loud footsteps (they're yours, alright, but still disconcerting). What I really loved about it was how I had to google every other minute to reassure myself this was not actually a horror game. I'd like to see just how many steps Janet did as we wandered around the suspiciously empty town of Painscreek trying to find out why it was abandoned and what really happened all those years ago. You're armed with just a camera and note pad. You play Janet, a young reporter tasked with going out to solve a cold case, the murder of a woman called Vivian Roberts. It’s safe to say this game ate me up whole. Little did I know that I would get so deep into this mystery that I would end up filling just over 10 A4 sides of paper, with notes scribbled everywhere from the margin to the edge of the pages. ![]() There are red phone boxes but dollar signs, yet something about it still feels so quintessentially British. I’m super into murder mysteries and wandering around falsely idyllic towns, so The Painscreek Killings really spoke to me. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives.
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