Oxenfree

I first played this game on a long roadtrip, as the mobile version, and I was fixated on it for weeks. I think I played it twice within a month. For the story and emotional value, it's easily the best game I've ever played. The vibes are great, I love the interactions with the other characters, and the music is phenomenal. And at the end, there can be some absolutely heartbreaking choices, and the game gives to time to fully process their weight, impacted by your previous choices. Emotionally devastating, and I love it. 10/10.

its cool :)

Such a beautiful game artisticly and story wise. Yes iv'e read that its a pretty slow game(though it took me 6 hours to beat and that's including all the *secrets*) and yes it is at some slower parts like why do we need 50 switchbacks! but that's because of the story focus, in other words the game play is about interacting and growing to know the characters better and deciding the relationship you are gonna have with them. I fell in love with the story and plot immediatly and would HIGHLY recomend playing through this title blind and without guides for your first play through. Very fun and even though I was spoiled a bit I had an amazing time playing it my way. TLDR; Amazing extremely story centered game that will stick with me forever.

I liked the way that the game immerses you the whole time. Interesting story line, multiple ways the game could go as you choose choices along the way to help foster the friendships for the duration of the game. Just enough edge to keep you on your toes. There were a couple of long conversation points that bored me a bit, but over all, I thoroughly enjoyed this game and would definitely play it again.

7/10. Good game! Bit glitchy and janky in places but great story, great art style!

I've played Oxenfree on another platform, so I'm just replaying it here. Fantastic game. Some have referred to it as a walking sim, but I don't know if I'd call it that. It's a bit slow in terms of its controls, but the story is replayable, if you want to experience other ways the story plays out.

I will admit, this game is slow-paced, however, it has a beautifully written story, and interesting game-play, so if you want to sit back and play a game that doesn't require too much effort, this is the game for you.

A narrative masterpiece! I accidentally got the best ending. It was insane. My brain was questioning everything and also somehow my friend got teleport ed into the game?! Why did that happen? Who knows. But, all I know is that this game is quite a doozy. I would call it doozy. The timeline stuff was crazy and I really enjoyed the narrative. I'm a huge story liker. If you like stories please play! Thank you! 10/10

not what I expected at all and I loved it so much.

10/10 voice acting and art style

This classic I'll never get tired of and sorry to say but the 2nd one can't top this one! ALEX FOREVER

I had an actual nightmare once after playing this game, which is very rare. Paired with great characters, a really nice visual style, and a soundtrack that I still listen to regularly to this day, Oxenfree is just plain great.

The story is engaging and multiple outcomes are intriguing, but unfortunately the highly repetitive game mechanics made it hard to replay... And since this game is all about replaying it over and over, the lack of dynamic game mechanics made it frustrating some times. Also it's missing interface details like separate volume controls for music and speech, so the music is often louder than the important dialogue.

In conclusion, an interesting game that I enjoyed, but wish they could improve those things to make gameplay more enjoyable.

IS LEAVE POSSIBLE

serious question, I've been playing this game for like ten years and I'm still not sure I can say I've beat it.

As much as I like the story and the art, I just can't recommend this game. Not the PC version, at least. There are SO MANY BUGS, from the annoying stuck-in-climbing animations to the main character getting cut out of the frame or freezing in her place, or companions refusing to follow you, and thus making you CONSTANTLY restart whole sections of the game. On top of that, there isn't even an option in the settings menu to turn down the music, which is sometimes so loud that you barely hear the dialog. I would have understood if the studio was shut down, but they've released a sequel without bothering to fix their first game.

Such an amazing story

Yes, the game is a bit of a walking simulator, but it's really well-balanced with great character dialogues and secrets on the radio. (Point-and-click to walk makes walking easier on PC, although you might have to use the arrow keys if you get stuck while climbing.) It can be frustrating to restart dialogue choices as well, and I found myself restarting scenes to figure out what the best path might be. But even though the gameplay can feel a bit tedious, I really don't regret playing the game at all! If you like visual novels, it's definitely fun, and the horror and mystery's very great overall.

7/10 with a thumbs-up from me. Play it if you think it sounds interesting. I think you'll get the most enjoyment out of this game if you play it multiple times, but I just wasn't tempted to. Still not entirely sure what was all happening. Basically, I thought it was a decent game across the board - gameplay was decent, story and writing were decent, and design was decent. Nothing exceptional, however.

this will forever be one of my favorite games. the pacing is just right and the lore is super interesting. definitely worth reading all the hidden letters

Interesting game with surprisingly good dialogue and voice acting.

good recommend

I wish you could traverse the areas faster, or at least had a fast travel system. but other than that, I enjoyed it. Loved the characters and the story, I'd give it a 10. Now for part 2!

Beautiful game, short but still a very interesting unique story, i had no issues with the game.
One of the best indie games I've played.

There's way too much talking in this game. It's pretty much constantly incessant chatter we struggled to keep up with, and most of it was completely inane.

The imagery is kind of interesting, but it's hard to pay attention to it when the characters won't shut up for 5 seconds.

The central concept of somehow affecting the environment by tuning into a radio signal is a kind of weird concept. Radios are receivers; it's a bit like making stuff happen by reading a book. Ok, granted that's how spells work in a lot of fantasy scenarios, I will concede that point.

It wasn't for us. too much chatter, not enough worthwhile story.

It's like Night In The Woods and Little Nightmares had a little average-looking baby you don't quite know how to feel about... The story is fun and all, dialogues are great and there are a lot of possibilities to go through the game, but the gameplay is also kinda boring with so many down times. Overall, good game to get on discount and play for a solid 4-ish hours. I don't feel like continuing the timeline after I finished and it's even less likely that I'll play it again in anytime soon. But I'll probably buy the second game, yeah.

Like I said: "little average-looking baby you don't quite know how to feel about" pretty much sums up.

Wish fulfillment for teenagers with sh-tty stepsiblings. 8.5/10

Many good parts, but bad gameplay and bad story

This game has many good parts: atmosphere is top notch, great music and sound design, lots of quality voice-overs - everything seems spectacular from the outside, so when I saw others play this game, I was intrigued. But it falls very short on two most fundamental aspects: gameplay and (for a mystery game) story.

Gameplay

It’s just a walking simulator.
You have a radio, which you may tune in to different frequencies - at first glance it seems like a cool gimmick/mechanic of the game, but don’t expect any cool mechanics/puzzles with it (like in Outer Wilds) - it’s all just bruteforce through all frequencies.
The walking itself is reeeealy slooooow. At some point game unlocks extra “collectibles” (diary pages) and asks you to RE-visit all the locations to pick those up. They aren’t hidden in any smart way or require any puzzle solving - you just have to walk across everywhere again and, considering the walking speed, I immediately thought to myself: nah, not gonna do that.

Story

By the end of the game, the gist of what happens becomes clear, but you play most of the game without having any idea what the heck is going on. To give you an idea of dog-shit nonsensical nature of the story, here is the main quote of the game: "When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. But soon I shall be so I cannot remember any... but the things that never happened."
Now, there are “choices” you make during dialogues. None of them are meaningful, they just affect which part of the pie-chart you end up in at the end (“57% of players did X”). None (all except 1, maybe?) of them affect gameplay in any substantial way. These are very “cheap” choices if you ask me.

New game+

Having completed the game, it offers you to “Continue” and if you continue, the game becomes at times noticeably different. I didn’t quite like the game during my first completion, but people on Reddit said that second playthrough offers a substantial changes and parts of the story … don’t listen to them! Yes, the changes during second playthrough are clearly noticeable, but those still affect like merely 5% of playtime, most of the gameplay is the same (boring) one - slowly walk from place to place. If anything, doing a second playthrough showed me that some dialog “choices” weren’t even choices as they lead to the same outcome anyway.

Summary

• ≈5 hours for first playthrough
  
[*]≈4.2 hours for second playthrough

Looks great, plays boring

This game scared the shit out of me five years ago when I watched a partial playthrough. But even so it sat in the back of my mind for this whole time. Something in my head decided that I should just buy it and play it myself, and so I did and I don't regret a single moment of it. This game is amazing.

it is an amazing game, even though i made everyone one hate me during my first playthrough i thought the story was really good and the choices you make are really engaging, definitely work picking up!

I highly recommend this game! It's very enjoyable and I really love that its the type of game you can play multiple times to get a different ending from the last. I recently referred this game to all my friends, both who do and don't have steam, who may hopefully take as much interest in this game as I did the first time I played Oxenfree, and hope for them to download it too!!

Great game! I love the overall artwork of it, and the storyline is incredible. Supposedly, I have a hatred towards my step brother, but I just don't see it... unless he comes within fifty feet of me!

Very much enjoyed!
I have pretty much the same major complaint as everyone else: the walk speed.
It's fine when you're walking through an area for the first time, but when you're backtracking, looking for the ONE anomaly that you missed, it can be verrry tedious. Otherwise, the game was fun, the music good, the story captivating and the characters people who I ended up caring about!
8.5/10

10/10 love this game☻

A very well written story and characthers, the atmosphere is also excellent. I highly recommend it!

I poured nearly 19 hours into this game in a single week, playing and replaying and achievement hunting and getting every ending and having a blast of a time. It is definitely right up there among my favorites now. I love the snappy dialogue mechanic and every single one of the characters wormed their way into my heart by the end of it. Overall, Oxenfree is a really great game that you can finish in about four hours with lots of additional play value if you are inclined.

It's a shame the sequel doesn't live up to the first game, but Oxenfree also doesn't demand a sequel in any way. It's a perfectly self-contained story that is well worth the asking price.

This game will ALWAYS be one of my favorite games.
This should be an overwhelming positive game in my personal opinion, its something you just have to experience. (｡♥‿♥｡)

Wasn't sure about this game at first. The extra loud music in the beginning that you can't turn down (luckily it's ONLY in the beginning), the slow walking, the way it doesn't really give you enough time to choose what to say and you end up cutting other character's dialogue A LOT, the way it didn't tell me that I had a freaking map for some damn reason, so I had to walk blindly, not knowing where the heck I was for like half an hour >:(
BUT! Honestly, it won me over pretty fast, despite all the flaws. The story, the cool game mechanic with the radio, the spooky atmosphere, all the cool little things sprinkled all over. It all made it worth it, to the point that I actually got the second game, because I want MORE of this!
The game is definitely not perfect, but I had a ton of fun playing it, and that's what really matters :)

It is not a game. You actually don't play anything, you are just running around listening to endless dialogues trying to make them as short as possible. Visually appealing but extremely boring. 10 years old can "play" this. I repeat, it IS NOT A GAME. 1 hour in and I didn't have to solve anything, no puzzle, no brain teaser, nothing at all, I just walked around and occasionally tuned a radio on very obvious places. Absolutely wasted time. Sell the graphic / sound designers to someone who knows how to make an actual game...

Olly Olly OXENFREE

[quote]Score: 6.5/10[/quote]

Writing a review for this game is challenging without spoiling parts of the story. So, I will not go into what the story is about, but all I’m going to say is that it goes into the supernatural. The story is okay, nothing mind blowing, so are the characters. However, It’s amazing how they added branching into the story without making the “big decisions” seem like major influences on the outcome. For instance, you’d finish the game and not really know which choice exactly led to the ending you got, which is not the case for a lot of these "choose your fate" games. They tried to make the story the main mechanic of the game, and it just works. I would honestly recommend you play the game in a short time period so you don’t end up forgetting what happens and losing track of the story, because you might not understand the ending otherwise. The only thing I didn’t like about the game is how fast the dialogue options were…sometimes I didn’t even have enough time to read all the options. On the other hand, the walking speed felt too slow and could have been a little faster.

TL;DR: Overall, the game is pretty good, and it’s worth a playthrough if you’re into the supernatural. And you can get this game for free if you have a netflix subscription

Didn't enjoy it much, at first seemed cool, story driven game with some cool technique with radio and all. But it became so boring and repetitive. Go there, do that , some random convo and again do the same. Had bigger expectations.

I cannot express the amount of love I have for this game. Everything about the game adds up together perfectly for me, from the interesting concepts and lore to the smallest matter like the softness of the speech bubbles and choices. The atmosphere, game environment and graphics captivated me a lot. That is one of the reasons why I kept playing in the beginning, along with the idea of hidden objects and letters to encourage us to explore and appreciate the map. Moreover, the characters have unique personalities. The game had never once put me in a bored state learning more about everybody's past and understanding their feelings. On top of that, I would also like to come in the quality of the voice over - it is amazing and suits the game very well. To me, this game capture the idea of a thriller on a high level because despite the fact that the MC is usually with her friends all the time, I've always felt isolated in the game and scared of possible surprises that might show up out of nowhere. The ending was great and super nicely done that I had to replay it again immediately to find out the other possibilities. After finishing the game, it is safe to say that my standards for indie/thriller games went so much higher. Fantastic game. 9.5/10 <3

As for my final words, I would like to say happy (belated) 9th anniversary to Oxenfree! I am not lying when I say that this game is one of (if not) my favorite game of all time and it will always hold a special place in my heart. I discovered this game through Netflix and decided to give it a try on mobile because it looked awesome at first glance and I'm one of the biggest fan of choices matter games. Played through it about 4-5 times, I've never once regretted that decision. Super happy I got the opportunity to experience it again on PC :D

I love this game and the amount of details put into each choice, it makes it feel like there's infinite endings.

First five minutes seemed nice, but since there's no way to turn down the music (which overpowers the dialogue to the point I couldn't make out what they were saying), I'm not bothering with the rest.

played 8 hours of this and finished it once before I went home for a bit last year and it was all I could think about while I was home. the whole time I was dying to know what the other options were and the other endings, so as soon as I got back I did another playthrough and found some more secrets. fantastic writing, and I mean that's probably the main thing you would want to know if you're interested in playing this game, all else is secondary but still very well done

This game is broken. On PC the protagonist is stuck while climbing a wall. You cannot continue the game. Google says this bug exist since years. I do not know why they still sell it. I try to have it refunded.

8.5/10 played with mouse and keyboard

I played Oxenfree based on a suggestion. While creepy games are not my favorite, I can not under sell how well put together this game is. The game can really drag you in making you want to learn more even though you just have this bad feeling in your stomach.

You can achieve different endings based on how you interact with the characters. The underlining story is really creepy but not too gruesome. I liked the whole experience even though this type of game is not my norm.

I definitely recommend at least 1 play through. Oxenfree is really well put together.

This game is really fun! I had originally played it on Xbox gamepass, but I decided to buy it here.
When I played it before I had a great time but when I played it again it honestly almost felt like a different game, I didn't realize how expansive it was!! I love the aesthetics n everything

I love this little ghost story. Good writing and characters, great voice acting, and a couple of twists (both story and gameplay-wise) that were super creative. Onto the sequel!

I'd heard about this game recently by random chance and decided to give it a try. I'm quite glad I did, as the game was a very engaging story, with an interesting mystery and lots of character development...that I got to drive as the player. The entire atmosphere of the game really works well as it's slower pace drew me in and made me care about the adventure, and wanting to know more about the mysteries of Edwards Island. I felt the purchase was money well spent.

Oxenfree is a wonderful game. Great script and voice acting, lovely graphics and incredibly fun to play.

Great atmosphere, soundtrack, and story. You should not play this game only once and the game counts on you replaying it.