Platform: PS4
Also on: PS5
Publisher: Armature Studio
Developer: Armature Studio
Medium: Digital
Players: 1
Online: No
ESRB: T
I love a good walking simulator. Whether it’s Gone Home, or Firewatch, or one of my all-time favourite games, What Remains of Edith Finch, there’s something deeply affecting about games that can draw you in with their stories as you walk through the world, uncovering its secrets.
Where The Heart Leads shows what happens when you have a walking simulator where the stories and the secrets aren’t that interesting.
To be fair, of course, that’s sort of the point of the game. You play as Whit, a man who plunges deep into a sinkhole as he tries to save his family’s dog and has to find his way out. As he slowly makes his way back to the surface, he explores his past, and you see all the major — and not-so-major — decisions and…
