![]() You also can’t have 10 minutes of fun it’s much too slow. It would work much better as a mobile website with a room code, like Jackbox. For starters, while it does have a mobile app that can be used as a controller, visitors aren’t going to download that for 10 minutes of fun. I don’t see it working for most adults with friends, be it online or locally, so eight players seems a bit ambitious. It’s a game best played with the people you live with, across six play sessions, as if it were a TV series. That’s when As Dusk Falls multiplayer works very well. It’s reminiscent of the Wii days, with parents, siblings, housemates and perhaps even (somewhat tech savvy) grandparents coming together. The functionality of a game, without feeling like one, is what genuinely opens it up to people who otherwise won’t pickup a controller. While As Dusk Falls doesn’t feel like a game, it is the best medium for this kind of storytelling. Netflix tried the same thing, dabbling in choose your own adventure TV shows, but they never really landed flopped on the couch, it wasn’t want I wanted from a video streaming service. She really got into As Dusk Falls, even more than I did I suspect because there’s no learning curve, and it feels like a TV series that asks for some input. She enjoys the odd game of Jackbox or Mario Party, but found Until Dawn exceedingly boring between story beats, and finds Mario Kart 8 too busy compared to the good old days. I played through the six-chapter arc with my partner who’s a lapsed casual gamer. But its strength is with numbers – under the right circumstances. It’s faster, and perhaps easier, to play it alone. Each player also has an override function, which locks out all other players, and can be crucial during the “crossroad” decisions that significantly affect the story. With multiple players, you each make a choice and it’s majority rules – or lucky dip if there’s a tie. While it’s very much a one action at a time story, As Dusk Falls is intended to be played by between 2-8 players, either locally or online, as much as it is by a solo player. It’s a game mum and dad (or generous uncle and aunty), who foot the bill for the kids’ Game Pass, can sit down and enjoy even if they don’t otherwise play games on X-Station-Box. Omitting gameplay keeps the story moving. It’s similar to narrative-focused games like Until Dawn and Life is Strange, but easier to pick-up and play for irregular gamers, with pacing much closer to a bingeable TV series. But the quick time events mostly feel like they’re ticking a box to add a slither of gameplay – and stop you looking at Instagram or getting up to make a cup of tea, as you would during a TV show.įrom developer Interior/Night, and published by Xbox Game Studios, As Dusk Falls feels like a strategic choice for Game Pass a different type of experience. It’s easy to pick-up, especially using a phone touchscreen. Simply select the dialogue, story option or item to explore using the cursor – or up and down on the D-pad – and complete the quick time events by mashing A or swiping the control stick. With no movement required, As Dusk Falls is played using a cursor on screen through an Xbox controller or a smartphone companion app. Switching between timelines to explain how and why we’ve ended up here, with brief snapshots of how it all ends up from a restricted point of view. ![]() ![]() In that regard, there’s a clear influence from shows like Breaking Bad. ![]() These range from setting the scene a couple of days, weeks or months earlier to looking years into the future. It soon becomes apparent there’s more to the boys’ cash grab than pure greed and that the Walkers got tangled up in this mess after needing a fresh start. Set primarily in 1998, the narrative twists and turns through flashbacks and flashforwards to develop the main cast and their motives. The Holts are three young adult brothers on the run, having just committed a robbery, after some drama with their parents. The first is the Walker family, with dad Vince, mum Michelle and daughter Zoe, plus grandpa Jim, who get caught up in the antics of the second while moving across the country. You make decisions that determine the path your tale will take and select from dialogue trees, but aside from a bevy of quick time events, there’s nothing in the way of gameplay.Įither alone or with others, you watch and influence the intertwined stories of two families. While it has launched as an Xbox and PC title, it feels least like a game due to its dearth of actual gameplay. The least gamey game on Xbox Game Pass, for the non-gamers in your household.Īs Dusk Falls blurs the lines between game, visual novel and TV series with a combination of all of the above.
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