Fun Games You Aren't Playing - Her Story

Fellow dungeon-crawlers, if you've been following along on my adventure, you’d have noticed that weird games are extremely my jam. 

The latest strange art game that I've played is Her Story, which is one of those games that you can’t say much about without ruining the whole experience. But if you love crime stories, adventure games and/or murder mysteries, and have an hour or two, you should totally check it out.

Her Story unceremoniously dumps you in front of an old computer monitor opened to a database of videos from several police interviews of a woman circa 1994. The first search term given to you is “murder,” so you know it’s about to get really good. 

The questions are missing from the clips, so all you get are the woman’s answers. It’s addictive to try and piece together the story she’s telling, especially since all the interviews seem so different. Take note of specific words she says, since they are leads to different clips with different pieces of the story.

The database can only bring up five clips per search term, so the “game” is finding out what interesting search terms to use. Even if you discover a particularly juicy part of the story early on, there’s no way to piece together the whole thing with just a few clips. I had to draw from all of my google-fu skills to get to all of the good stuff. 

For a full-motion video game, the acting is surprisingly good, especially compared to the hokey b-movie cheesefest of yesteryear’s live-action games. There’s even some appropriately ominous music in the background as you return to the database of clips, highlighting the eerie silence in the background of the interviews. I can’t say much else without spoiling the fun, so I suppose I’ll stop here!

Spilling coffee on herself,
The Dungeon Dame