
You’ll decide their fate their literal lives are in your hands. So, the choices you’ll need to make under duress are the highlight of the gameplay. The quick-time events can be altered in the options menu if they truly get too hard. The most challenging part of the game is the choices you’re asked to make. Overall, As Dusk Falls is a unique experience and one I honestly wasn’t expecting to enjoy as much as I did. And it’s certainly helped along by the excellent voice acting. While made up of unmoving pictures, m ovement is evoked through rapidly changing between images, and the amount of emotion that comes through with the rather simplistic graphics is impressive. It’s rather simplistic gameplay, but it really enforces the living novel aesthetic the game offers with its painted, still graphics. You’ll get to control each character through making choices about what they do or say or how they act, usually on a time limit, along with completing quick time events and just sitting back and watching your choices unfold. And it’s all because you get to walk in Jay and Vince’s shoes and see just how similar but different their motivations are. The game has a wonderful way of challenging your perceptions of each character. While at first, the conflict between families feels black and white, the deep dive into characters’ backgrounds and all the unexpected revelations quickly add nuance to the conflict. And this is integral to the story’s impact. For example, in the first book, you’ll control the actions of Vince and Jay. You’ll play characters on both sides of the conflict throughout the game. This whole premise is an amazing start to the drama that will keep you engaged from start to finish. Where these two families collide is at a local inn, where the three brothers take Vince’s family hostage.

At around the same time, Jay and his two brothers break into the local Sheriff’s house to rob him blind, but something goes wrong, and they’re now on the run. Along the way, they get into a car accident and are stranded for the night in a small town in Arizona. Vince and his wife, father, and daughter are moving home because his wife was offered a new job. An interactive drama developed by INTERIOR/NIGHT and published by Xbox, As Dusk Falls begins its story in 1998, following two entangled families over the course of 30 years. What would you do for family? That’s just one of the insightful questions that As Dusk Falls poses.
