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Cinematic mystery game Immortality comes to PS5 on January 23
The well-regarded mystery game Immortality is heading to the PS5 on January 23 for $20. The game is more of an interactive movie than anything else, and tasks you with going through video clips to solve a disappearance.
'Immortality,' the latest game from 'Her Story' creator Sam Barlow, arrives on mobile
If you're a Netflix subscriber, you can download Immortality now at no extra charge.
‘Her Story’ creator Sam Barlow delays ‘Immortality’ to August 30th
Immortality, the next game from Her Story and Telling Lies creator Sam Barlow, has been delayed.
Sam Barlow's Immortality trilogy hits Xbox and PC this summer
The interactive sim is set to be more horrific than 'Her Story' or 'Telling Lies.'
'Her Story' creator teases his new, spooky game on Steam
To celebrate, we're teasing our next project and you can WISHLIST on @Steam right now!” The new game’s Steam page reveals little else. The game’s Steam description reads, “██████████ new ███████ Sam Barlow ██ Half Mermaid █████████████ is ███████ ██████████ cinema ██ death.”
‘Telling Lies’ is bigger, but not better, than 'Her Story'
In Her Story, developer Sam Barlow did a rare thing: He created a new video game format. Four years later, he's made Telling Lies, which releases on August 23rd. It's a game with almost identical gameplay -- centered simply on typing search terms into a video database -- but a lot more polish. It's the fat-budget feature film to Her Story's shoestring indie. Whereas the original was carried by one actor, its successor has four main performers, nearly 100 cast members and dozens of speaking roles.
'Telling Lies' and the new nonlinear narrative
The gameplay in Sam Barlow's critically acclaimed indie Her Story involved little more than Googling. Positioned in front of a mid-'90s computer desktop, your job was to sift through a database of nearly 300 short videos of police interrogations to deduce how a murder took place and why. There was only one actor, the interview room setting barely changed and your sole method of interacting with the game was by keying in search terms that connected to interview transcripts. Yet trawling through clips, attending to the slightest testimonial discrepancies and details, then revisiting previous scenes in light of your new information was compelling. Her Story took the ostensibly passive idea of observing and listening and made them feel dynamic -- no shooting, jumping or fetch quests necessary.
'Her Story' FMV crime fiction game coming from Silent Hill: Shattered Memories designer
The latest game from Silent Hill: Shattered Memories designer and writer Sam Barlow is a little different. It's not survival horror, it doesn't have motion controls and ... it's entirely full-motion video. Entitled Her Story, the game revolves around a police database containing several taped interviews with a female subject, concerning the disappearance of her husband. Rather than interacting directly with the game, players "type search queries and the database returns clips of the answers where the woman speaks those words." Barlow claims, "If you can Google, you can play Her Story," elaborating that, while the search mechanic is simple, it "quickly reveals its richness and complexity." Non-linear storytelling seems to be the game's hallmark, with Barlow himself calling it "a sculptural way of viewing a story." We're still not clear on exactly how it will work, whether players will directly affect the narrative or solve the mystery, or just soak in a unique, interactive crime fiction story. Either way, it certainly sounds different. Her Story is set to arrive early this year on PC, Mac and iOS, and it's currently listed on Steam Greenlight. [Image: Sam Barlow]
