This review contains spoilers

The most detectively detective game I've ever detected. No hand-holding, no markers, no prompts that you're on the right track – you don't know you've solved the puzzle until you've actually solved the puzzle. Shivah benefits from its unique perspective – you play as a New York rabbi overseeing a floundering synagogue. You have the option of giving a “Rabbinical Response” to most characters (which amusingly amounts to a rhetorical counter-question). But the game almost undoes itself with a ridiculous climax ala Assassin's Creed II – a bout of clerical fisticuffs.

Reviewed on May 26, 2023


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