For example, another member of the house and my favorite of the bunch, Raquel, is a quirky college girl with a knack for painting and photography but blames herself for her best friend dying when she was younger. The story revolves around figuring out their problems and eventually pairing them with other characters who help them get past what’s holding them down. There’s the landlord Tom with an ill mother he looks after, the stressed-out doctor Ben looking for a lucky break in his young career, and the temporary tenant Linda escaping her life as an older wife to figure out her future, to name a few. However, the meat and potatoes of Eternal Threads boil down to the interactions between the game’s authentic characters, modeled very closely to actual people you could see yourself rooming with through university or in the middling years of your life. It won’t take long for you to get familiar as your hopping between being a spectator and choosing your next scene back-to-back.Īnd thankfully, it’s easy to rewatch old scenes and remake decisions on the fly from the Time Map, showing a ripple effect of your new choice yet maintaining the progress on the old route in case you switch back – saving needless time backtracking through nodes. I’d argue this approach works best because stepping into later scenes without context was awkward, but I like that the developers give players the freedom to choose.Īdditionally, you can automatically sort through all the nodes by character involvement, quickly jump to different days, and slide between memories tied to decisions when backtracking. It was a bit daunting at first since there were over 200 events to watch, so I decided to focus on the first node and go down the line at my own pace. The rooms in the three-storied home you can get to at first will be limited but slowly open up to you as you work your way down the Time Map and discover keys around the house.ĭesigning locked doors was a great decision because it helps break up the linearity of just watching cutscenes and encourages the player to search for clues around the house while getting acquainted with the residents through personal items in their rooms.īut a cool thing about the Time Map is that you can freely move and view a scene on any day at the start of the game – unless it’s behind a locked door. It tracks time nodes from your Time Map, a linear thread of memories between the roommates around the house, and lets you select a node of your choice to watch a holographic scene. While using it, I couldn’t help but think about Alien: Isolation because of how it looks, and it effectively works the same way as Ripley’s navigator but has time-bending features. By changing the decisions of the housemates a week before the fire happens, you can avert their deaths and get to the bottom of the accident.Īfter being transported from the Second Chance Project headquarters by your trusted guide known as Control, you arrive at the ruined England home and start using the Visualizer. You play as Operator 43, a newly qualified time-traveling operative working for the Second Chance Project: a task force dedicated to fixing corruption in the past and restoring the proper timeline.Ĥ3’s first assignment takes you to May 2015 in Northern England, focused on manipulating time to save six residents who died during an unfortunate house fire. Developed by Cosmonaut Studios and published under Secret Mode, Eternal Threads is a first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice, and consequences.
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