Oxenfree
Playing Oxenfree feels like it sends me back in time to the days when I religiously read young adult fiction like the Goosebumps or Animorphs series, centered around characters who were just a little bit older than I was talking about relationships and family trauma that I wouldn’t truly comprehend until a few years later. It’s a point-and-click adventure game with a lot of style and some excellent voice acting that ties the entire epic together. You can beat the game in just a few hours, and it certainly doesn’t overstay its welcome, though it’s also the kind of game you want to play over again to see if you can interact with characters differently and score a different ending. There are a few horror elements in there, but the tension ratchets up in the latter parts of the game.
