Thoughts Diver is a detective sport that skips interrogating individuals and delves proper into their tangled ideas as a way to remedy its mysteries.
Detective video games typically have you ever discovering clues, placing them collectively, and fixing some kind of thriller by trusting the individuals round you. As a substitute, this sport has you placing collectively reminiscences inside somebody’s thoughts. You play as an investigator who’s seeking to journey into an especially damaged thoughts to unravel the reality round an unsettling case. The factor about reminiscences is, they typically get twisted even inside somebody’s thoughts. Reminiscences are so depending on what the person thinks is essential in that second. As a Thoughts Diver, you’ll want to seize objects and place them in the precise reminiscences, hearken to conversations of these round you, and take within the setting. It’s a wierd job – and a very invasive one at that.
On this sport you’ll want to discover Lina’s thoughts, which is filled with capsules of reminiscences. Your aim is to resolve a lacking individuals case, however at first you don’t have lots of info to work on. Over time, and thru piecing collectively reminiscences, you’ll begin to perceive her dynamic along with her associate, that she went to the police station for this, and that her personal reminiscences aren’t utterly recognized to her both.
Recovering reminiscences are finished by grabbing objects, generally from different reminiscences or generally from the ‘improper’ place inside what she remembers, then placing them the place they should go to revive extra of the story. You may also add in conversations, lining them up appropriately, to get an even bigger image on what’s going on. Every part has a logical answer, however generally you’ll want to assume past what you see to completely perceive what you ought to be altering.
I performed a demo of Thoughts Diver at BIG Convention and I used to be captivated by such a novel thought and located myself actually wanting to grasp what was occurring inside this world. It’s a really thorough sport, with plenty of story and element, and one nicely price taking part in.
Thoughts Diver is on the market now on Steam.
About The Writer
Jupiter Hadley
Jupiter is a prolific indie sport journalist, writing for Metro UK, Massive Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and lots of extra, all with a give attention to smaller indie gems. She covers hundreds of sport jams and indie video games on her YouTube channel, letting each sport have a second within the highlight. She runs indiegamejams.com, a calendar of the entire sport jams occurring on the earth, judges many jams and occasions.
