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Play Overview
Pentiment (2022) is a historical role-playing game where you explore a 16th-century German world to solve a murder. Play takes place in the pages of an old book and involves exploring the world, talking to people and discovering new ways the narrative evolves. It stands out for playfully challenging how we think about history, and what happens when you lose control of this.
You interact with the world by walking around, talking to people, and making choices about your conversations. This, together with items you find and events you overhear, slowly uncover a murder. You only have limited time each day, as depicted by the large dial that moves you through the canonical hours, so you must decide how best to spend your time.
But rather than offering a single plot to uncover, the game focuses on character development and choice-driven storytelling. In fact, you soon discover that you are caught up in a whole series of murders over twenty-five years. Only you can solve these crimes, but each decision has lasting consequences and draws you closer to the underlying conspiracy.
As Emily Price writes in Paste Magazine, "It is a beautiful portrait of history that doesn’t limit itself from commenting on labour inequity, parental loss, or artistic hopelessness, all things the medieval and early modern art it draws from portrays so vividly. In bringing some of those stories to us today, Pentiment accomplishes the remarkable goal of being both clear-eyed about the medieval period’s faults and sincere about its masterpieces."
Our examiner, Jo Robertson, first checked Pentiment 2 years ago. It was re-examined by Andy Robertson and updated 4 months ago.
You interact with the world by walking around, talking to people, and making choices about your conversations. This, together with items you find and events you overhear, slowly uncover a murder. You only have limited time each day, as depicted by the large dial that moves you through the canonical hours, so you must decide how best to spend your time.
But rather than offering a single plot to uncover, the game focuses on character development and choice-driven storytelling. In fact, you soon discover that you are caught up in a whole series of murders over twenty-five years. Only you can solve these crimes, but each decision has lasting consequences and draws you closer to the underlying conspiracy.
As Emily Price writes in Paste Magazine, "It is a beautiful portrait of history that doesn’t limit itself from commenting on labour inequity, parental loss, or artistic hopelessness, all things the medieval and early modern art it draws from portrays so vividly. In bringing some of those stories to us today, Pentiment accomplishes the remarkable goal of being both clear-eyed about the medieval period’s faults and sincere about its masterpieces."
Our examiner, Jo Robertson, first checked Pentiment 2 years ago. It was re-examined by Andy Robertson and updated 4 months ago.
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Play Style
This is a Brain Game and Communication game with Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle, Role-Play and Shooting elements. This is a single-player game.
You can play this game in the following styles:
Benefits
Age Ratings
Pentiment contains public executions, stylised gore, suicide, references to abortion, frequent strong language, references to sexual assault, and references to sexual activities. Small parts of the game also reference notable alcohol consumption and incidental ergot-induced hallucinations.
Costs
Pentiment usually costs £14.99 to £15.99.
Pentiment
There are no additional in-game purchases, loot boxes, adverts or subscription costs.
Game Details
Release Date: 15/11/2022, updated in 2024
Price: 40% Off
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Players: 1
Genres: Brain Game, Communication (Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle, Role-Play and Shooting)
Accessibility: 16 features
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
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