Edited on: November 6, 2025
Posted on: November 6, 2025
benjoyce
Verified ownerGames: 100 Reviews: 1
One for the Ages
This is a haunting masterpiece, indeed. Impeccably paced, gorgeously drawn, and voice acted with feeling, I have been carried away by what Inklingwood Studios has accomplished, with only two core members on the writing/design team. Murphy McCallan is a dashing lad whose heart is in the right place, but is not afraid to get his hands dirty in order to do what is right, and he has a worthy antagonist, matched in cunning. But the real star of the game is the Bellemore Manor, an antebellum mansion that is a home to a suspiciously populous ghost community, and many mysteries within the nooks and crannies of the mansion. Details in every corner offer a piece of environmental storytelling, a clue, a daub of colour added to a sumptuous painting that is not afraid to change and show the bones beneath the rosy-cheeked complexions and sunlight-spared skin. Puzzle-wise, this game plays fair with the information given out, and even when I was stumped, very few hints were needed to get me back on the right track. Most of the time simply nudging me towards a location that I thought I have exhausted was enough to find my flow again, and once I have found a solution, I had to realise just what a foolish mortal I have been. I am certainly going to play this again, to re-experience it in a more knowing manner, and take more notes to see if I have caught every hint and every morsel of plot that adds up to the secrets of this truly gothic edifice. Heads... I mean _hats_, hats off to the developers!
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