The Raven

The amount of detail poured into this story is absolutely mind boggling! The voice acting is amazing and there are thousands of lines of dialog. The characters are very interesting. The game has 5 chapters and it's a very long game. Sadly the in game puzzles are sometimes very tedious on par with Monkey Island. I know that's a beloved franchise, but so many times we quit that game in frustration because the item combo puzzles were drawn out, far fetched and didn't always make sense, or even worse, the item hot spot wasn't there earlier, but it is now. Oddly the game charged you points for hotspots, which were tiny and hard to locate. Many of the navigation transitions were long for no reason. There were many times where you didn't know what to do or where to go next. All of that said, the game was still enjoyable especially if you like old school classic P&C adventures with a real detective angle. And the end was a total stunner! Definitely recommended!

It's difficult for me to decide if I should recommend it or not. I agree with the negative reviews. So it's probably a yes from me, IF you can get it on a HUGE sale (80-90% off). Sorry but 20 bucks for a 7 year old indie game that's sub-6 hours long (as you can see from my playtime) is asking too much.
I really liked the dialogue, and might recommend the game just for that. Otherwise, the short duration of it makes it so that by the time the ending rolls around you're like, "that's it?". It feels like this game should have been at least twice as long to really set up the story and twist. Though I don't know if many people can sustain pointing and clicking for 12 hours lol. It feels like it rushes you to the end, and the play time reflects that. There's also not really any foreshadowing or any way for you to guess at the ending before right at the very end. Each character should have gotten a lot more time in the spotlight to really set the mood and pace.
But overall it was enjoyable up until that time at the end. Kind of a meditative game in a way. Puzzles aren't too difficult or complicated either, the game doesn't have you hunting around huge areas for the one single pixel you need.

I went in with little knowledge or expectation. The story is rich without being cumbersome, you can often vary the detail in which you take part in the conversations. The music, along with voice actors give a sort of theatrical tone, which is somewhat characteristic of the era.
All in all a great game. Although, personally, I felt playing through the other POV in chapters 5 to 8 laid bare some absurdly elaborate aspects of the events, which could have been left to the imagination.

Great game. Good story with an intriguing mystery and who dun it. Liked all the characters and had good plot twists. Ran into one bug late in the game that required me to reload an older save and redo actions in a specific weird order to get around it, but otherwise I loved it.

few bugs but over all game was fun good story i did NOT expect the story

A lovely mystery, a lovely twist where you play three different characters and what can i say about the ending. Magnificently done, totally fooled me.

The ending is a shocker! I didn't like certain frustrating parts of the game but with some help from the internet i made it through.