Half Past Fate
Review

Half Past Fate (2020) is a romantic comedy adventure. You explore the lives of six different modern day characters and their romantic relationships over eight hours, eight days, and finally eight years later. It's a point-and-click adventure where you explore the world and solve puzzles using the things you find. Here though, there's also a lot of dialogue and entwining stories that play out like a movie.

Each chapter involves a single character meeting with friends, going on dates and living their lives. You spend your time moving around and engaging in pre-set conversations. It's in the puzzles rather than the character interactions that require your involvement. These involve collecting items or completing actions in a certain order.

The result is an acquired taste, as this is something you experience rather than heavily influenced. With simple cartoon graphics, cute characters and a wholesome vibe, it's a game about these young people and how their individual stories come together, like the movie Love Actually.

Our examiner, Andrea Walney, first checked Half Past Fate 22 months ago. It was re-examined by Andy Robertson and updated 4 months ago.