No idea if there is now a name for this kind of “crawling through archives” puzzle game, but this was the first and only one that I played with this mechanic.

Her story is a puzzle game where you sit in front of a police database software with videos of interviews with the titular her woman. The interviews are cut into many smaller fragments and you can search the database for key words. You then get presented all the videos where that keyword was spoken. The catch is that the database software is shit and only the first 5 entries are shown. So you have to get creative what words you search for so you really find a new lead and not just filler. So you better have a notebook (digital or real) ready to write down things you want to ask later.

You don’t really get a direct goal, you need to be motivated just by curiosity alone to find out more.

The videos are real movies shot with real humans, which gives the whole thing an interesting twist, since graphics doesnt really matter, since its real footage. But the quality of the acting matters, and I was satisfied with it, even though its nothing exceptional

I tried the developers next project, Telling Lies, but the interaction (fast forwarding and rewinding) with the movies in that one annoyed me so much, that I only tried it 2 times and gave up after 2 minutes each time, so can’t say anything more about the sequel.