Review: As Dusk Falls, video game, series or comic?

Timeline

This is a very different game in several facets. The first is that it is entirely focused on the selection of answers and decisions that guide the development of the game. Dialogue, actions, and decision trees impact the scenes you see or the timeline. Even seeing the story of the alternate characters directly affects what happens on the main story.

The second point is based on how the game is presented visually. As if they were the vignettes of a comic. You can see the art, the illustrations and even the landscapes. This makes the game feel slow for those used to the frenzy of newer titles.

However, even for the same classification, only for adults, it seeks a more mature audience, who likes stories, who wants to break them down little by little and who wants to participate in it.

As a third point, the multiplayer mode adds an intrigue factor, be it local, online and even in streaming format, you can collaborate with up to nine players, and make the best decision, or if there is not a majority, leave it to chance.

This allows you to answer as you would in real life, or propose personalities to each character, follow the story based on the environment you created and find multiple ways out of the same circumstance.

Although it might seem like a short game, in which you need about six hours to develop the main story, the replayability is very high, since I was able to return to specific circumstances or points that allow you to explore a different decision tree and thinking about the “what would have happened” in a real way, especially in the most complicated decisions or in those that you thought would have a very different result.

Where is it located?

This title is part of the Xbox ecosystem, whether included in Game Pass or by purchase or through Steam. Also, this can be a great game to try out for cloud gaming, as it doesn’t require a lot of high bandwidth resources and is enjoyed in a relaxed environment, as much as the game surely keeps you intrigued.

And although the decision format has already been explored before, and we have even seen it in Black Mirror and its movie Bandersnatch, it has an air of freshness, of risk by betting on a flat game and illustrations, in an environment that seeks get “all the power” of the new generation of consoles and that is where you will find your sector.

It can be a great game between gamer friends or couples, which can make you know how they would act in unique stressful situations or even in everyday moments of life.

As Dusk Falls, wins in the construction of characters, makes you love them, hate them or empathize, to feel identified with their circumstances, to ask yourself what you would do if you were in their position. An interesting combination between watching a series, playing a video game or reading a comic.