Ode to The Painscreek Killings
This game literally haunts my dreams in the best way. Since my husband and I played it two years ago, one of us will randomly blurt out "remember painscreek killings?" and the other one of us will go "ughhhhhhhhhhh it was SO GOOOOD."
Hot take: There is no other detective/adventure/mystery/patient game out there like this. The story, the details, the foreboding sense of doom and always feeling like you are being watched, the sprawling town that you have to actually search every corner of...even *with* the glitches in the game, I feel it is flawless. A work of art. I actually emailed EQ studios after we finished it to find out if they were coming out with new games. They have Scene Investigators but I'm craving a full blown story that takes hours and hours of note taking and mystery solving and makes you feel like a literal real detective.
There have been lots of wonderful recommendations 'like' Painscreek Killings, but none of them truly compare.
I'm writing this post in hopes that somehow magically the fine folks at EQ studios will see this and say "hey, you know what, lets make this random persons day and announce that we are coming out with a new game thats EVEN BETTER than Painscreek Killings."
Anyway, big HUGE shout out to EQ Studios for creating a game that goes down in history as one of my most special core memories with my husband. You guys are awesome.