The Invisible Hours
The Invisible Hours is a complex murder mystery in which players freely explore an intricate web of interwoven stories within a sprawling mansion. A group of strangers receive a curious invitation from the enigmatic inventor, Nikola Tesla, offering each of them the chance to make amends for their darkest wrongdoings. When the last guest arrives at Tesla’s isolated mansion laboratory, they find him dead – murdered. Disgraced Swedish detective, Gustaf Gustav, vows to find the killer amongst the other guests: a blind butler, a convicted murderer, the world’s most famous actress, Tesla’s former assistant, the son of a wealthy railroad magnate, and rival inventor Thomas Edison. But none of these people are what they seem. The player is invisible, with freedom to follow and observe anyone in the story – or to explore the mansion for hidden clues.
Game Discussion
Steam User 1
An amazing game that I'm shocked more people don't know about. The main mechanic of the game is so interesting to play around with and the many perspectives and stories of each character are well played out. I would recommend this game to anyone who loves a good mystery.
Steam User 1
A genuinely unique visual novel-like experience where you can follow the story by following different characters around. You get to the end of one story and think you 'understand' what is going on only to follow someone else later and realize you had it all wrong. Only by following each character can you finally piece the whole story together. Great use of VR.
Steam User 0
About 9 hours of fun on this game. The graphics are great on UWS 3440x1440. Sound is great too. The voice acting is very good. Its like watching a movie, but you can navigate to just about anywhere you want. You have controls to pause, fast forward and rewind. I played on a regular desktop and not VR. Youre able to freely move everywhere like youre walking with the character. There is a map screen too and it has all of the characters below it. The controls work well and dont take too long to figure out.
Its a murder mystery and a lot of fun because there will be several scenes occuring all at the same time.Youll need to pick on to watch and then rewind to go back to the others. The story is really great. It has lots of depth for each character. its very well written. I was very impressed by this game. Its unique. I have never played anything like this before.
Steam User 0
Far more passive than most games, this interactive experience is more designed to immerse than to interacted which is a surprisingly novel idea.
Steam User 2
A really fun whodunit style mystery with a similar gameplay mechanic to The Sexy Brutale, where multiple scene play out simultaneously while you move around and manipulate time in order to piece everything together.
Steam User 0
What an impressive and immersive show. I am so excited we have this new tech to represent stories in this way.
Steam User 1
I was skeptical about this game for at least two reasons. 1) I was tired of Tesla’s mythological reputation. 2) For years, story based 3D adventure games (e.g. Agatha Christie, Blacksad, The Council, State of Mind, Frogwares games) have largely failed to deliver on their promises, with the exception of Telltale Games.
But wow, was I wrong. I haven’t finished the game yet, but I’m about halfway through, and it’s been a blast so far. I’m not particularly drawn to gameplay-focused games unless they have psychologically fleshed out characters, interesting relationships, and good voice acting. This game ticks all those boxes, and it has managed to pull me in so thoroughly that I’ve found myself playing for hours on end.
Sadly, as is often the case with a specific type of games I enjoy, it hasn’t sold well. It seems to me that story based games (except the pseudo-deep ones like Disco Elysium, Talos Principle, Undertale, A Plague Tale, Oxenfree, This War of Mine, Bioshock Infinite, and for some reason Doki Doki), have been struggling for years to find an audience, as evidenced by the downfall of Telltale Games, unless they’re paired well with good gameplay or interesting atmosphere (e.g. SOMA, Outer Wilds, NieR Automata, Hellblade, Pathologic, Stanley Parable, Enderal, Firewatch, original Bioshock, Mass Effect, and lots of point-and-click games). So I think Tequila Works needs to sugar their upcoming pills with unique settings if they want people to give them a chance. Spec Ops The Line had the same problem, a nice story with not-so-interesting gameplay and setting. I mean, make Tesla a cyber-cat or something, I don’t know..
Oh and it's not a one hour game unless you're rushing to the end, which is basically skipping the game.