Her Story
Her Story is a fascinating experience that truly requires you to use deductive reasoning, and probably bust out a notebook and a pen as well. The entirety of Her Story is played via a computer search bar, as you play a detective searching through police interview footage to try and piece the case of a missing man together.
The videos feature the man’s wife, Hannah Smith, and you have to type in search terms to try and bring up new videos that shed more light on the truth. Her Story is a brilliantly designed experience that can be solved so many different ways.
The game is completely freeform, and the only way you’re going to get hints on what to search next is by watching videos. This leads to a kind of flowchart that you create, oftentimes with a real pen and paper, as you try and scrub footage for little hints or lines, then figure out how the videos fit together.
Other games might put you in the shoes of a detective, but there are very few games that do a better job of making you feel like one.
