A Hand With Many Fingers

A more mixed but positive review. The idea is really good, with the whole card catalog system looking for the next important detail information gathering mechanic is done really well. The way the conspiracy is also uncovered the more you discover felt great. Plus the unnerving paranoia they add in the atmosphere was also exciting. I do think the way it ends once you have a specific note kind of ends the game in an anticlimactic way. For me it would've been more engaging if the player had a choice when they felt satisfied with how much information they got. I still enjoyed the hour I spent playing the game however.

Summary: Buy only at a big discount, as even the game's small starting price doesn't justify the incredibly short length and an abhorrent lack of a note-taking system. Pros: The game starts off beautifully and promises a true investigative experience, with a visible effort placed in constructing the real-life case used as its premise. Cons: However, the potential to be a full, proper game is heart-breaking from the very start as you find out the game wants you to use a note-taking alternative outside of the game, as in: either have a pen and paper ready or use another monitor. This incomprehensible blatant laziness destroys the immersion and adds weight to the tediousness of the archive fetching system. The endgame came incredibly abruptly and left a bitter feeling of faded hopes of some sort of grand revelation. I truly hope the success pushes the developer to create a complete product next time, as this is one of the rare games to actually hit the nail on the head with proper detective work in a sea of creations with a far greater budget, yet that failed to hit the mark this close.

If you're left wondering if the game just abruptly ended or if in fact it did end? then its not a very good or a remotely satisfying ending. I don't mind the non-hand holding approach but this game takes it way too far to the point of it just being bad. I had to google had i completed the game which then led me to many other posts asking the same thing.

I loved The Roottrees are Dead so was looking forward to playing this, but I found the mechanics so tedious I couldn't continue.

Poucos jogos me passaram tão bem a sensação de paranoia ao desvelar uma conspiração.

Great short game about doing research in an archive. You investigate the Nugan Hand Bank that was accused of being a CIA front for facilitating drug trafficking and arms deals. You make connections between names, places, and years to collect more and more information. The game is very simple and mostly consists of reading. You read letters, invoices, and newspaper headlines, collect information, and then use that info to find more information in the archives to do it again. I think a decent amount of people will find this game pretty boring, but if the idea piques your interest, you want to learn a little history, or you just want to make a conspiracy corkboard, I recommend A Hand with Many Fingers.

I like this game a lot, I wish there was more. This is a short little detective game where the goal is more to find the information and make the connections yourself about this real life person. It's short and I like the corkboard and being able to just place things how I want. I hope this gets a sequel or the building gets filled with the other information that is filed away for other things to make connections about, like a small digital and interactable archive. I would love for more types of these games to be made in the future. 7/10