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Abscission

92% positive of 121 Steam reviews

Released: 2023
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam

Made by Beyond Booleans.

About the game

Abscission is a Lovecraftian, story-driven horror point-and-click investigation game. It involves searching crime scenes for evidence, combining clues and questioning suspects. Puzzles can have multiple solutions as you guide the protagonist - Detective Will Stanhope - through the story.

Tagged by players

Detective
Point & Click
Crime
Horror
Choices Matter
Multiple Endings
Investigation
Story Rich
Mystery
Pixel Graphics
Adventure
Old School

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Very Positive

What players say

Recommended
There isn't much to say about the gameplay, it was pretty basic and simple, and something you'd come to expect of a point-and-click title (some of the puzzles and object findings were meh at best and could've been tweaked abit). Overall though I still enjoyed it and the story/artwork was really it's strong suites.
11 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
I played and finished the game in about 2 hours. Steam only shows 0.2 hours, because I ran the game using the winsetup.exe in the install folder instead of abscission.exe, but more on that later. First things first, I believe this game was made by a single person or at least a very small team. That deserves respect and is a real accomplishment. There is a lot of potential here, as the story is superbly creepy and…
9 min played when written. 12 found it helpful.
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