It sounds simple, but having the player engage directly with each character before the story swings into motion is integral. As mentioned above, the early-game conversations recall Until Dawn (another game about teenagers going out to party and being beset upon by supernatural forces) in that they gradually introduce you to the new characters and give you one-on-one conversations with each of them. You are frequently learning more about your friends and defining your relationships with them, even while you’re exploring the game world or attempting to complete objectives. However, because half of the game’s buttons refer specifically to dialogue and character interactions, they end up emphasizing that portion of the game and re-orienting the player away from traditional game elements and toward narrative and conversation.ĭuring gameplay, hardly a minute goes by without some degree of conversation between you and your companions. Given the limited and seemingly wasteful control scheme, it would be understandable to assume that Oxenfree is poorly designed or, at the very least, under-engaging. That leaves only one button for physically interacting with the environment, along with a shoulder button to bring up a radio (which is crucial for many of the game’s puzzles and events), and another shoulder button for the map. Of the four face buttons on Oxenfree’s interface, three of them are devoted to selecting dialogue options. However, despite its influences, Oxenfree is very much its own experience, perhaps because of its stripped down approach to gameplay and stylization. The way it introduces its characters is reminiscent of Until Dawn, its exploration and coms towers call back to Firewatch, and its horror elements crib from any number of recent indie horror titles. Oxenfree borrows from a number of other recent narrative-driven games.
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