Wonderfully beautiful spiritual successor to Echo Night, one of my all time favorite games. Déraciné exists primarily in frozen snapshots of time, where even the river is eerily still. It feels just like an early CD-ROM game like Myst, but as haunted as Saturn games like Lunacy or Enemy Zero, the way you teleport from point to point like moving screen by screen in those games. There is something, however, about exploring a haunting old building in the woods as the only inhabitant, that also reminded me a lot of Gone Home's very specific mood.

Reviewed on Jun 13, 2023


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