Good Bones

This game had a very good base but it lost me towards the end. It was too fast, some really important questions were not answered to and the bad ending isn't realistic at all. I know it's a short game, and I love the art style, the music, the vibe, the theme was interesting but it's not enough for me and the endings felt very rushed. It was fun but lost me at the end.

[u][b]Overall Recommended:[/b][/u] ✅ [b]Gameplay[/b]: ❤️❤️🤍 [b]Graphics[/b]: ❤️❤️🤍 [b]Story[/b]: ❤️❤️🤍 [b]Music/Sounds[/b]: ❤️❤️🤍 [b]Bugs[/b]: 🚫 -------------------------------- [b][u]Total:[/u][/b] ❤️❤️❤️🤍 comment: Some items took me too long to find (my own fault), the hint function was extremely vague (noticeable more when stuck on finding a specific item) but not a bad read for a VN more on the simple side.

Quite heavy, but pretty good. Interesting and engaging, and only sometimes annoying. Managed to complete without hints, but it involved just clicking everything I see for a while, in a couple spots.

The game was fun but could be quite heavy for some people. Dang that ending though, jeez! lol

Beautiful and tragic all at once. Love the inclusivity and representations of cultures and identities. The artwork and music bring so much life to this game! Great work, thank you for creating such a heartwrenching and lovely story.

GOOD BONES On the one hand: an interesting story setup in a mother-daughter relationship and the grieving process. On the other hand: puzzles that require you to click the environment in PRECISELY the correct order to continue. Some wiggle room for non-sequential puzzle solving would have been nice. Also, the climax involves a scavenger hunt where you can't pick up the items you find until you get the box to put those them in, only the SPECIFIC box you need is the most difficult thing to find! And some of those items are in places that you checked already, but they only appear AFTER you get the box. WHY Also also, the final message about accepting your circumstances and moving on from your grief is good and great but. Hey. Hey that character got murdered and their murder was covered up in an accident and you found the murder weapon and the murderer is still out there and they may know that you know and we're asked to MOVE ON? WHAT The more I think about this game, the more unsatisfied I feel. The unfortunate message that "if you are a victim of domestic violence, the best you can hope for is to have the suspicious circumstances of your death be unremarked upon" is not particularly great. Really bad aftertaste. Still 100%d tho

I have been looking forward to this game for so long and was so excited to play! I felt like this game explored complex themes well, while also balancing it with moments of levity as you explore this new house with Avi and Bianca. This point-and-click mystery game is perfect for a cozy afternoon. Highly highly recommend it! Can't wait for more amazing diverse stories from Retcon games!

I really wanted to like this game, but numerous issues prevented me from doing so. Other users have described the same thing, but while dialogue changes for certain items in the game, and you have to interact with items multiple times at different points, some of the dialogue remains the same no matter what. This took me out of the game play because the dialogue in some items didn't update when characters learned new things, and in certain instances, the dialogue was advanced beyond what they should have known. I was also bothered by the sounds the characters made. There were four or five reactions that basically amounted to cloying "aw" sounds in various tones. Especially when you are having to move through the same dialogue over and over because you don't know what items are going to change with the storyline, this can get extremely annoying. I finally stopped playing the game with any sound. All of that I could have put up with, but the bad ending of the game made me angry. This is a game about grief and the developer made it so that [spoiler]the main character's child commits suicide and the ghost tells her that she's a bad parent who is callous and cruel and then taunts her to "move on." Then, the game ends [/spoiler]. All of this happened because I made a couple of "bad" choices with the dialogue like telling a ten year old [spoiler]that she would make new friends instead of lying and saying she'd keep in touch with the old ones. She's ten. That's just not realistic. I was a military kid and moved around a lot when I was a child and I didn't keep in touch with anyone before high school. Another "bad" choice I made was offering to play a game with the ten year old instead of saying "let's talk some more." Again, she's ten. Using a game as an opportunity to talk, especially about grief, is an equally healthy if not healthier way to handle a ten year old. Further spoilers, the game doesn't allow you to do anything like that. If you make that choice, you just play tic tac toe[/spoiler]. In general, I think my issue with the game was that it ventured into tough topics and then ended up handling them poorly. The game was also kindof a weird mess with the other themes it tackled, including [spoiler] spousal abuse [/spoiler]. It seemed like the developer couldn't decide if the game should be a tragedy, a comedy, a cozy game, or a horror game and thus ended up making something "horrific" instead.