Her Story

Her Story genuinely drove me mad. I felt frenzied as I scribbled every last detail and minor tick of Hannah Smith during her police interrogations. I was translating freaking Morse code for god’s sake! This mystery game, which is relayed entirely via FMV-style footage, has you combing through police interviews of a woman in connection to the murder of her husband and simply becomes so. Much. More. Even now, I struggle to think of a game that has so completely enthralled me to the point where I held my head in my hands contemplating its intricacies.I feel like Her Story, as well as other Sam Barlow games, have earned this reputation for being too heady or full of themselves, but they’re just titles that poke at the player and beg them to be a little more curious.Her Story prompted a lot of thought and reflection from me, and the night that I spent poring over every little detail of it is genuinely one of my most treasured memories of a game ever. If you give yourself over to it, you will hardly regret it. Her Story is literally just $2 on GOG, so after picking it up, you may as well also get Immortality from the same developers for another $12, because it is an absolute miracle of a game that builds on the former’s foundation so wonderfully.