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  Screenshot of digital game cover from Alex Hill Mystery As a seasoned Nancy Drew gamer, I was excited to hear that various people were making games based on HeR Interactive's Nancy Drew mystery series . Already, we had Miss Clue , but that series had its bugs and other issues that made gameplay unpleasant and/or impossible. Alex Hill: Whispers at White Oak Inn by hannahontrek is a slower, low-pressure mystery rife with Nancy Drew references and high stakes.  The Concilio Detective Agency is asked by Ronnie Bahir, a 25-year-old concierge at White Oak Inn, to investigate the threats he's been receiving and if the inn's hauntings are connected since they started up only a few months ago. The case is given to Alex Hill who is back from suspension. On the car ride there, she witnesses a ghostly, glowing figure walking across the lake near the inn, so already, the game is a foot! When Alex checks in with Ronnie, she learns that a girl named Audrey died in a boating accident ...

  Screenshot of Endless Monday Main Menu by hcnone Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines and Overtime allows players to navigate as Penny, an office worker in the Creative department who has a bad habit of procrastinating her projects. Players get to decide when she focuses on her work and when she gets distracted—and which distractions to embrace.  Already, this sounds so relevant to many people in this type of job, especially in this technological era where it's commonplace to claim you have "the attention span of a goldfish" (or a dog because—"Squirrel!"). While this Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) visual novel game starts off as a typical office day, it starts to veer into the realm of absurd and "just-go-with-it" thinking, revealing that working in a colorless workplace may not be good for one's mental health and that strange things are happening behind closed corporate doors. After playing Endless Monday , I see it as a satirical, meta, and...

Covers Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw is one of the few Owlcrate books I've received, so the cover is white and not black like the regular edition (and has blue sprayed edges). I find both versions are equally beautiful; perhaps the black one lends a more forbidding and mysterious sense since it's like being out in the dead of night under the moon amid eerie bare trees. The white edition is more neutral and focuses on the beauty of the cover art. It's like the Owlcrate version of The Bone Houses where they changed it from black to white, removing some of the scariness from the cover. Show your  support for books and reading . Summary  Nora Walker is part of a line of witches who each have a unique power. Her mother could communicate with bees, for example. Nora looks up to her grandmother whom she saw as being brave and powerful. Despite her mother's rule that they should not practice any magic, Nora sneakily reads her grandmother's book when her mother's away for...