Curtain drops on "As Dusk Falls"...

Quite the aftermath...

My wife and I finished the last two chapters of As Dusk Falls, after having a great time with the first four. This game is entirely about story, so it's hard to talk about it without spoiling the whole thing. I had a feeling all character storylines wrapped up too quickly, too easy. Most characters didn't even return in the final chapter, except in reference (non-playable). Perhaps they would have if we had made different decisions, but I doubt it. The story just focuses on the same two characters...

Hey look, a mini-game!

We mostly played it to keep everyone as safe as possible. Usually we agreed on the decisions. Sometimes I overruled my wife, when I felt a very strong dislike towards one of the other characters, and I didn't want my lead to take any crap from them. My wife was very upset when I angrily turned away someone handing me a religious flyer, for instance, saying you should at least thank them politely... Sometimes I went with my wife's decisions, even when I would have done the exact opposite had I been playing on my own. I wanted to take another character with me, but she insisted I leave them behind, thinking they would die otherwise... It's give and take when you're together!

Wow, payphones, how 90s...

When it comes to the community results, our decision-making style was pretty much all over the place. Mostly we either joined a 2/3 majority, but I liked it better when we were with the 1/3 minority. I didn't like it when it turned out almost everyone made the same decision as us, but I marveled at the decisions only 10% of the people made. I always like it when it turns out I played a game differently than most. 

In any case, we had a blast playing this! It's something different than watching a movie or TV show together, and my wife really likes being able to steer the story a bit. Though she often expects different results from the chosen dialogue options, because sometimes it's not only what you say, but how you say it, and that wasn't really incorporated into the game, so sometimes things "came out wrong", you might say, and some what she thought were positive decisions, backfired.

I'll be playing on my own again next. A new, short, sci-fi, detective story by a very prolific developer. But if anyone has any suggestions on other games like As Dusk Falls I could play with my wife again, we'll be very much obliged! 

You can find As Dusk Falls on Steam and on GOG! There are also Playstation and X-Box editions.