Fran Bow 2015

Is it still worth playing?

A ten year old girl finds her parents dead in 1944 and wakes up in an asylum without her cat, in a 2015 point and click adventure with psychological horror. Fran wants out, to find Mr. Midnight, her black cat and only friend, and to get home to her aunt. Getting out takes looking at things, talking to people, sometimes choosing what to say, and collecting items to use, examine or combine. The pills the asylum gives her are part of that too, since taking one shows a hidden and gruesome version of the place, with things to find that are not there otherwise. Along the way the story runs over five chapters, with a few arcade minigames and one scene where you play the cat. Be warned that it is grim and often bloody. Puzzles that grow out of the story, with the pills opening a second, hidden world, are still the reason to play it now.