A mysterious masked ball on a crowded train, a person questioning three strangers about their disturbing life stories.
Liberally inspired by a Calvino novel, Four Travelers is a gorgeously presented free point and click adventure structured in three acts: a homosexual man living under 1920s fascism, a schizophrenic woman in interwar England and a black doctor returned from WW1 to impact with racism among his colleagues. All three take a significant turn for the macabre, especially the third one.
It in more than one way reminds of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, though not nearly as messed up or rough around the edges.
It's exquisitely written and animated, with its only real downside being the puzzles, which are very very few but also fairly obtuse, relying more on rote memorization than logical association. You might for instance need to remember someone's remarks while looking at photographs in order to play three records in the correct order, or examine plants in a greenhouse in a certain sequence based on the movements of an apparition. The narration is so good that you might find yourself wishing that were all the game had to offer, foregoing the unnecessary puzzle gameplay aspect entirely.
With all that said, this is a must play for horror fans or anyone interested in seeing social commentary done properly in a videogame.
Liberally inspired by a Calvino novel, Four Travelers is a gorgeously presented free point and click adventure structured in three acts: a homosexual man living under 1920s fascism, a schizophrenic woman in interwar England and a black doctor returned from WW1 to impact with racism among his colleagues. All three take a significant turn for the macabre, especially the third one.
It in more than one way reminds of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, though not nearly as messed up or rough around the edges.
It's exquisitely written and animated, with its only real downside being the puzzles, which are very very few but also fairly obtuse, relying more on rote memorization than logical association. You might for instance need to remember someone's remarks while looking at photographs in order to play three records in the correct order, or examine plants in a greenhouse in a certain sequence based on the movements of an apparition. The narration is so good that you might find yourself wishing that were all the game had to offer, foregoing the unnecessary puzzle gameplay aspect entirely.
With all that said, this is a must play for horror fans or anyone interested in seeing social commentary done properly in a videogame.