Blackhaven is a first-person narrative game that follows Kendra Turner, a college intern at Blackhaven Hall, a historic mansion burned during the American Revolution. Working alone on a holiday, Kendra uncovers a trail of secrets and misdeeds that spans centuries and may determine her future.
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A really great and really important piece on the whitewashing that happens in the history that is preserved in the United States. With an ounce more polish and stronger pacing towards the end (the Big Reveal happens when you are... reading some papers) I think this could have been an all-timer.
It starts as a fairly humdrum museum walking sim, but at the end I was genuinely interested in where the story was going.
It starts off slow but it's in service of a very cathartic ending. It beautifully illustrates a point about hidden history without being too heavy handed or even judgemental. Ok fine it's a 'walking sim' almost literally but honestly being able to read the historical documents at your own pace and doing incredibly authentic goofy guided museum tours is a good use of the medium so THERE.