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YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker - but nothing is as it seems. Type any question - and your patients will reply in full screen video. They'll have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words will determine their eventual fates, and your own. Main features: FMV! - 1600+ full screen HD video responses; Free text input - Ask whatever you want; Multiple Endings - Find out whodunit, and what happens to you and your patients; Multiple Stories - 6 main suspects and 5 side-quests inc. John Guilor (Contradiction); Random murderer - Chosen at the start of the game to combat spoilers; Simple UI - View evidence, make notes, watch replays, see your question history; Steam achievements and a dynamic descriptive rating system. Warning - This game contains mature themes and psychological horror. This is a Lovecraftian FMV murder mystery, which gives players full freedom to question suspects by typing their own questions instead of picking them from a predetermined list. There are no point and click puzzles to solve, just questions to ask and evidence to inspect. Finding out who killed Dr Dekker is only one part of the puzzle; working out how to fix the chaos he left behind will be so much trickier. As well as providing clues to the murder, each patient has their own bizarre problem they need your help with – from time manipulation and re-animated loved ones to horrors under the sea. Complete with an atmospheric soundtrack, it invites you to explore the shadow reality that your patients inhabit – a world full of paranormal strangeness and horrors that go bump in your head, where all you have to rely on is your own mind. Just try not to lose it. You play through a series of five therapy sessions. Each session you'll talk to several patients, and traffic lights tell you which patients you've unlocked so you can move on. Yellow is unlocked, but you can keep talking to reach green and find all their possible responses. On the final accusation screen you choose whodunit and if you've picked correctly the game finishes and plays your ending videos. Automatic saves mean there's no way to rollback something you've said to a patient, so be careful with that. What happens if I ask a question they don't have an answer for? The patients have lots of different ways of saying "I don't know" - most have over 40 in fact, including some that contain clues that lead you to new storylines. We've tried to design the game so you don't get stuck, but if you can't figure out what else to ask, just type 'Hint'. That should point you in the right direction. If the murderer is chosen at random, does that mean it's replayable? The game can be replayed, but it wasn't designed with that in mind. We wanted everyone to be able to experience as much of the game as possible without needing multiple plays, so branching generally removes just a few responses at a time. That said, you will have to replay the game if you want to find *all* the videos and unlock all the achievements and endings. |
