Her Story

Her Story is an enjoyable puzzle game that tells an engaging story. Despite a few minor complaints, it's worth checking out, thanks to the low...

It takes games like Her Story to allow us to step back, realize what innovation and uniqueness actually look like and actually define what special is. This isn’t the type of game that will push your reflexes to the brink, but let’s be fair, not every game has to do that.

If you have ever tried searching Google for an item you don't already know the name of, you'll know it is quite a difficult task. Hours are not enough. It can sometimes take days and weeks trawling the depths to find secrets hidden away in seemingly...

Despite it being born from originality, I hope other developers copy Her Story's blueprint. Not the exact story, of course, but the idea that people who play games are smart, and can take on tough, intellectual work if you give them a story worth...

40 EditsHer Story Wiki »WalkthroughCheats and SecretsAbout This GameSummaryGame EditionsIn front of you sits a mothballed desktop computer that's logged into a police database of video footage. The footage covers seven interviews from 1994 in which a...

Her Story forces you to pay attention in a way most games don't. I didn't want to miss one thread. Every word said could be a potential new lead, the dates on the videos are essential for making connections, and even certain visual differences in her clothes and appearance hold clues. I reveled in every "aha" moment, feeling a sense of achievement for catching even the smallest threads.

Her Story is one of the year's best and most interesting games, a detective story that's as much about piecing together your own place in its puzzle as it is the person you're 'investigating'. It plays with the nature of detective fiction without...

Her Story is, more than anything else, an incredible display of the potential inherent in interactive...

The experience is admittedly different to that of a well-constructed detective novel, or carefully charted HBO thriller, but the effects are similar. You are captivated, manipulated and spun around by the plot. Perhaps, in an era where filmmakers so keenly play with chronology, and regularly leave conclusions unwrapped, we are prepared for this kind of patchwork narrative, which leaves you, mostly, to draw your own conclusion of what really happened by the end.

If anything, Her Story is more distressing because these feelings are familiar; we experience the same distress hearing the friends and neighbors of the world’s worst people describe them as quiet and keeping to themselves.

What Sam Barlow has delivered here is an amazingly fresh experience and while from the outside it may seem there's little here to appeal to the hardcore gamer, if you give it a moment, you'll realise just how enthralling being a detective can...

It's been days since I finished the game, but I can’t stop thinking about it. Her Story nails the dark, voyeuristic nature of true crime and the curiosity that follows. Like a frenzied fan, all I want to do is pore over more videos, more facts, more conspiracy theories until I feel as though I've unraveled the game's very code itself.