What Remains of
Edith Finch Review

What Remains of Edith Finch (2017) is a narrative puzzle game about the surviving member of the Finch family, who seems to have died from a curse. From a first-person perspective, you return to the family’s coastal home to learn about each relative’s final hours by exploring their rooms in turn.

From the same team as Unfinished Swan, each character’s story unfolds uniquely in the style of a fable. Exploring every inch of the intricately detailed, cluttered and lived-in house builds a picture of the family that lived there. Sifting fact from fiction is no easy task as the family’s memorialisation of events is often unreliable.

The pieces fit together like a mystery and the house itself holds all this together beautifully, but really the game is a chance to reflect on how families tell their story of home, childhood and parenting. It revels in the glorious peculiarity of life and how we must embrace all of it to be fully alive.

Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked What Remains of Edith Finch 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 5 months ago.