The five hop a ferry over to Edwards Island for an annual beach party. The game focuses on five friends- Alex, a spunky blue haired girl her friend, Ren her step brother, Jonas the less upbeat Nona and Clarissa, former girlfriend of Alex’s deceased brother, Michael. It’s not a perfect home run, but it’s close and delivers quite effectively. And what a debut it is, giving us likeable and well voiced characters playing out against stylized painted environments on a 2.5 dimensional plane and an interesting story that has branching dialogue to lead us to multiple endings. Such is the premise of Oxenfree, the debut game from Night School Studio, a developer made up of alumni from Telltale and Disney. Add some temporal rifts in to mess with the protagonists’ heads and you have the recipe for something quite spooky indeed. Certain things play well in dealing with ghostly tales-teenagers, a deserted island, and a staticky radio all fit nicely into the category.
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