Gaming is a diverse medium, but most video games seem obligated to involve murder in one form or another. That’s why it’s so refreshing to see games that focus on something other than violent gameplay, such as story, puzzles, and whatever else this interactive medium can provide to players. Nowadays, there are several episodic games take advantage of the medium very well by placing emphasis on the interactive aspects rather than the combative ones. Do you know what game is pretty good without being combat-focused? Not Peter Moorhead’s Murder.
70’s throwback has you play as the “Fixer” who cleans up murder scenes after all shit has gone down, the only problem is security guards and the police are already on the scene and you have to work in the shadows to clean up the mess, which includes hovering up blood splatter, picking up vital pieces of incriminating murder weapons and taking bodies back to your car and away from the crime scene. This simple yet effective murder strategy game really does impress and has you trying over and over again to clean up the level without being caught. Check it out hopefully coming Summer this year.
Murder has never looked so sweet than in the hand-drawn Don’t Kill Her. Now the indie game is seeking your support with an Indiegogo and Greenlight campaign to bring the game to players on PC and Mac. Don’t Kill Her, from indie dev Wuthrer, is a cutesy, quirky little platformer game with one major difference: You play as a murderer. So not one for the kids then.
Peter Moorhead’s Murder is everything that critics of indie games despise. It’s a stylised pixel-art short story with minimal actual gameplay, and it is wrapped up in less than twenty minutes. Whether or not this classifies it as a “good” game (or even a game) will be down to your interpretation of the experience. It will certainly prove divisive, but that doesn’t necessarily diminish the experience.
