Backbone is a good game, but if you were expecting something more like Monkey Island meets Zootopia then you might end up with some buyer's remorse.īackbone does want you to get into the mindset of a detective to start with, though. And I won't spoil the specifics of this transition (which are incredibly, incredibly weird) but I do think it's important you know that up front. About halfway through, for example, the detecting/solving a murder bit gets, for all intents and purposes, dropped entirely. Like The Good Place with more depression, or Disco Elysium with raccoons.īackbone isn't as unrelenting or dense as Disco Elysium, but it progresses in a similar vein. individualism, dressed up in the tropes of a detective puzzle game. It's more accurately described as a grim, philosophical, story-focused noir game about collectivism vs.
So in that spirit, it seems important to tell you that Backbone is not the point and click detective adventure game with all puzzles you might have thought it was. Just ask the two old ladies who I once saw going into a screening of Zombieland and leaving after approximately seven minutes. From: Steam, GOG, Humble, Epic Games StoreĪn important part of having a lovely time with something is setting your expectations correctly.Backbone is less the detective noir you might expect, and more a story-driven philosophical exploration of empathy.
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