Review - Adios

Review: Adios by Mischief

Free this week from the Epic Games Store is Adios, a short story "game" where the gameplay is simply choosing from a few dialog options. There are very few actual choices here. The rest is linear. Basically, you are experiencing a short story.

Adios is a cinematic first-person game about sticking to a complicated decision.
You're a pig farmer in Kansas. It's October. Cold, crisp mornings are the norm, and you have decided that you're no longer okay with letting the mob use your pigs to dispose of bodies. When your old friend - a hitman - arrives with his assistant to deliver another body, you finally screw up the courage to tell them that you're done.

And as both a story and a "game", Adios is very short. Whether you like the story is subjective of course but I highly recommend this title for the highly effective narrative trick it pulls to hold your attention:

From the very start, they literally give away the ending. Huge spoiler, right? Why stay to watch it all?

Sure there's the dialog, which is very well written and voice-acted. But because of the nature of the ending, they still hook you to sit through the whole thing. They keep you guessing with little suspenseful bits, and even the scenes in between have the additional purpose of building suspense. All in all, a story masterfully told.

And until next Thursday, it's free.