Oxenfree 2016

Is it still worth playing?

A radio tuned to the wrong frequency opens something that should have stayed shut for Alex, a blue haired teenager spending a night on Edwards Island with her friends and her new stepbrother. This 2016 supernatural coming of age mystery for the PC and Xbox One, later on most systems, came from two founders, one out of Telltale, who wanted a story with no cutscenes. You walk and you talk: the others speak as you move, speech bubbles rise over Alex with two or three things she could say, and you can interrupt, wait for a gap or say nothing, and the night remembers what you chose. The puzzles are the radio, tuning to a frequency that opens a door or lets a ghost speak, and time folds over itself more than once. Nobody dies by your mistake, and the ending is who you kept close, in about four hours. You can still talk over someone, and the game notices.