Follow the inner lives of a murderer and a young detective in this indie simulation game. Players control a tiny, free-floating ghost-like entity that drifts through abstract environments, collecting memory pieces to unlock story progression. Environments react to these collections, with books opening and words emerging to mirror the unfolding thriller narrative.
Gameplay starts simple, with calm flight amid mysterious music, then grows surreal across 15 themed chapters. Each chapter ties into the young boy's life story, blending peaceful exploration against a backdrop of murder mystery. True thriller fans who savor calm, abstract storytelling will find it compelling.
Experience the Murder Diaries
In this game you abstractly follow the narration of a murderer and a joung detective through their lifes and thoughts. This leads you straight into the middle of an exciting murder case and a murder mystery unlike you have ever seen before unfolds.
Figure out what happened, explore fascinating landscapes and abstract environments and enjoy the thrilling storytelling. Collect pieces of the story while freely floating through related environments and immerse yourself into an intriguing story filled with blood and murder.
A must have for any true fan of thrillers and anyone how enjoys a murder mystery that goes beyond the normal story telling.
How does the gameplay work?
You will play as a free-floating ghost like creature.
Basically, as the soul of someone who is experiencing the story.
You are very small in comparison to the surroundings and can fly freely through the area.
You start by exploring the area and enjoying the feeling of flying as well as the gentle yet mysterious background music.
Soon after starting to explore, you will find the first memory piece.
You can collect the memory pieces to continue with the story and to advance with the overall narration.
The story talks about a young boy, about his live and about how everything changes. It is setup as a thrilling murder mystery and acts as a contrast to the somewhat calm and enjoyable gameplay.
You fly towards another memory piece and collect it.
Once you collected the memory piece a nearby book opens and a couple of words are floating out of the book.
Just like that the environment will often react and reflect on the advancing story and will abstractly represent some of the things that happen in the story and that are on the mind of the young boy.
The first levels are quite straight forward but the further you advance the more surreal and abstracted the levels become.
Once you have finished a chapter by collecting all memory pieces and finishing the overall story of a level you will continue into the next chapter.
There are 15 chapters in total and each abstractly represents the story part that you are currently experiencing and has its very own theme and twist to the story.
