For its first half, this is a 10/10 choose-your-own-adventure visual novel/interactive TV show whose story wouldn't feel out of place in a series of Fargo, or, indeed, in a Coen brothers' film. It takes its foot off the gas very slightly in the second half, but is still extremely entertaining. I started it on Friday night and polished it off in two extended sittings because I found it so compelling. The voice acting is excellent, the choices you have to make are often difficult, and you feel like everything you do has real impact. At the end of each of its six chapters you get given an extended flow-chart showing you what choices you made compared with other possibilities that were available to you, and there's an option to replay sections to follow a different path, but I never wanted to: the story that I ended up telling was the one that I chose to tell; any other story would be somehow untrue, and that sense of ownership is testament to the game's greatness.

I'd be very interested in playing a follow-up to this, but, sadly, there doesn't seem to have been any mention of one since the game's release. It feels like something the devs could announce and publish relatively quickly, however, so hopefully it'll be dropped at an Xbox conference at some point down the road. It came to the PS5 last month, too, so if you've been holding out then I'd definitely pick it up. If you've any interest whatsoever in this sort of game, or if you ever enjoyed anything Telltale made before they lost their way, you should absolutely check it out. I'm annoyed that I took this long to play it.