Excellent – OXENFREE Review

This is a genuinely compelling and wonderful game. The characters, while not all great or even very well rounded, are interesting and fun, especially Alex and Jonas. I sincerely love their relationship especially, and that this is one of the most compelling sibling stories I’ve ever played. That said, there are a few issues with it, mainly the mechanics and the way the dialogue flows. For example, in order to fill space between actions, the characters might initiate dialogue, but when you get dialogue options, they fade so quickly that you have to interrupt the sentence of the person talking, or miss your chance to even say any dialogue. There are also a few things with the movement mechanics that annoyed me, a few bugs with how the characters moved around, but the biggest primary issue was that you couldn’t choose your walking speed, and you also couldn’t choose to not rush ahead of your friends and stuff so it was irritating to see Alex just bolt up ahead of her friends to get to the destination faster, though I did like the fact that you could really control where you went during dialogue scenes and such. I would also recommend playing this on a tablet, as using a phone is kind of difficult to control. Overall, a fantastic game, though and if I could give it 4.5 stars I would.
Review by crazysoccergirl2723 on OXENFREE.