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SummaryWhat if the physical objects of everyday life, the possessions we hold close, were actual windows to the past? Peer into distant memories and unseen futures in Hindsight.

Developer:Joel Mcdonald

Hindsight

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Aug 4, 2022
Metascore
Generally Favorable
76
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Mixed or Average
5.3
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
76
55% Positive
6 Reviews
45% Mixed
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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Aug 31, 2022
90
Game Rant
Tackling tragedy in games is important, but doing it well requires empathy, awareness, and a deft hand. Hindsight takes an important story and makes it relevant and relatable by scaling down its narrative to a quiet, personal level. Hampered only slightly by a few design choices, its masterful blending of art, music, interactivity, and writing make it a subtle triumph and a story well worth being told.
Sep 8, 2022
80
Edge Magazine
As this game invites us to reconsider our relationships with loved ones while they're still around, the benefit of Hindsight couldn't be clearer. [Issue#376, p.118]
Aug 4, 2022
80
SpazioGames
As its name suggests, Hindsight is a fascinating journey in a story of memories and self awareness. With its touching soundtrack, the experience is a delicate way of telling us a story of an ordinary person in an ordinary world, and this is what makes the game so close and relatable.
Aug 3, 2022
80
Noisy Pixel
Hindsight offers a look into a life that could very easily be one of our own. It’s a glimpse into a very personal subject that many people can relate to and handles it with maturity and grace. As a game, it offers a short, bittersweet ride that might be too costly for some. But as an ‘experience,’ it delivers satisfying emotional catharsis and is a poignant reminder that we don’t always know the whole story regarding our friends and family.
Aug 4, 2022
70
IGN Italia
Hindsight is a short and compelling adventure about memories and identity. When mechanics, storytelling and rhythm blends together, Joel McDonald's game is brilliant and gives wonderful perspective about our relationship with our past and with the people we love. On the other hand, the sleek and very keen mechanic which the game is based on, sometimes feels like nothing more than an aesthetic exercise and some bits of the game are less entertaining and meaningful.
Aug 3, 2022
70
Twinfinite
The story is excellent, the art is fantastic, and a lot of people are going to relate to its message. However, if you’re going into the game thinking that it is going to be the next big breakout indie of the year, then you might come away a little disappointed.
Aug 9, 2022
60
Checkpoint Gaming
Hindsight is an interesting analysis of the ways we can play with memories via the use of objects that symbolise important aspects of our lives. The game’s mechanic that allows players to explore the protagonist’s memories and piece them together will be something that most will connect with as our memories shape the way we see the world. However, it is the pace of these memories that lead to frustration and a disconnect from the story. The narrative, though beautifully written, is constantly repeating itself and becomes tiresome pretty quickly. Hindsight is an aesthetically beautiful game with fun and thought-provoking gameplay that unfortunately lacks in its narrative execution.
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Aug 5, 2022
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grihajedy
For the first time, I will not recommend a game with a more or less unique gameplay, it seems that indie games are also slowly turning into "conveyor", so we came up with 1 mechanic that no one had used before, applied on it a standard visual, a tearful everyday story about mother-daughter relationship, and that’s it, connoisseurs will buy, but we didn’t count on a million sales. Yes, of course, it's interesting that you just need to rotate the camera, look for a suitable angle to move into the next scene, an unusual Point-and-Click game turns out, but something else is missing besides the basic mechanic, the gameplay is not even diluted with other mechanics, well, a couple of times they will let you choose what memorabilia you will put in a suitcase in which there is not enough space, and move something a couple of times, but in general, it is incredibly boring to play, you will just speedrun with music or a video on YouTube, without even entering the atmosphere, the game does not look like a holistic creative work with some general idea of ​​​​creating it, here it would be possible to come up with some kind of game about directing films and searching for a cool angle, but here some kind of indie unique consumer goods turned out) eh, Annapurna, why did you give money on this. Subscribe on my Steam`s Curators page: ****/curator/41977550/ / Первый раз я не порекомендую игру с более менее уникальным геймплеем, такое ощущение, что инди-игры тоже потихоньку скатываются в конвеер, вот мы придумали 1 механику, которую никто раньше не использовал, накладываем на это стандартненький, но приятненький визуал, слезливую бытовую историю об отношениях матери и дочери, и готово, ценители купят, а на миллион продаж мы итак не рассчитывали. Да, конечно, интересно, что надо просто вращать камеру, искать подходящий ракурс, чтобы продвинуться в следующую сцену, необычный Point-and-Click получается, но как же не хватает чего-то ещё кроме базовой механики, геймплей даже не разбавляется другими механикам, ну пару раз вам дадут выбрать какую памятную вещь вы положите в чемодан, в котором мало места, и пару раз что-то передвинуть, в общем, невероятно скучно играть, в итоге просто спидранишь под музыку или видео на ютубе, даже не проникаясь атмосферой, игра не смотрится целостным творческим произведением с какой-то общей идеей её создания, тут можно было бы вообще придумать каукю-то игру про режиссуру и поиск крутого ракурса, а так, какой-то инди уникальный ширпотреб, получается) эх, annapurna, на что вы денег дали в этот раз.
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