Last Stop
Were Last Stop a TV show, you’d wolf it down in a weekend. The adventure game, developed by Variable State (a studio known for the dialogue-free adventure game Virginia), is ostensibly about the ever-unknowable arcane, but the supernatural stuff takes a back seat to three show-stealing main characters: a young woman who ends up inadvertently kidnapping a man with magic powers; a single father who swaps bodies with his younger, richer, fitter neighbor; and a married mother carrying on an extramarital affair—when her gig at a spy agency allots for any free time, that is. The dialogue is sharp as a tack throughout, and the three main plots converge in a choice-driven ending that’s satisfying no matter what route you decide. – AN
