The entire game has a gauzy, hazy feel to it the environments are always slightly out of focus, and much of the game is spent on shots of characters’ faces or close-ups of clues that I need to examine. But I do have some choices about who I should listen to, and which paths of the story I should follow.
No one can be trusted, not completely, until it’s all sorted out, but that’s going to take some doing. There might be a grand conspiracy against her.Įrica is caught among a cast of characters, all of whom are telling her different stories about occult powers, her parents, and her childhood. Someone delivers a pair of hands to Erica’s door, and she’s taken into protective custody. Everyone had an opinion about everyone, and our conversation was an only slightly logical mess as we tried to convince each other we were right.Įrica unfolds with a dreamy, abstract tone, even as it’s presenting horrors. The chief of police? Nope, something shady about that guy. The detective taking Erica to a safehouse? Seems like a safe person, let’s trust him. My friends watched me play and shouted advice, and we threw out judgments about characters as they were introduced. The entire game is only the length of a movie, about two hours. While Erica is a single-player game, there can be a social element to it if you choose.
I can also use my DualShock 4’s touchpad to select glowing areas of the map, which represent paths to explore or clues to investigate. I can choose between text options that appear on the screen, with choices like “cooperate” or “question” popping up during conversations. The mystery of his past murder is about to become a large part of her life, and she’s haunted by the conspiracies around her upbringing and his death.Įrica is a Choose Your Own Adventure-style, full-motion video game, somewhere between Her Story and Netflix’s Bandersnatch.
Erica wakes up, screaming, in the present day. The door opens, and suddenly his killer is there, with a gun in one hand and a knife in the other. She sees a dreamlike, hazy vision: her father, dead in a room she doesn’t recognize, with some kind of symbol carved into his chest. He instructs her to gaze into the fire, and imagine the future. Erica begins with a younger version of our titular protagonist going through an occult ritual with her father.
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