If you’re the kind of person to turn up your nose at “walking simulators”, you probably won’t find much to like here.

Whether or not you enjoy these conversations will determine how much you’ll get out of Oxenfree. These characters have history with each other which is slowly revealed as you converse with them through the course of Oxenfree, where these conversations serve as the driving force behind the experience. We meet Jonas, Alex’s new step-brother Ren, Alex’s excitable oldest friend Clarissa, a popular girl with a standoffish relationship with Alex and lastly, Clarissa’s best friend, the quiet Nona. We are introduced to our character Alex and her band of rebellious friends on a boat travelling to Edwards Island, a tourist trap with a rich military history, majority-owned by a wealthy woman who passed away days before the game’s events began. Oxenfree is a story about interpersonal relationships and how choices and conversation can shape them, with a little bit of wibbly wobbly timey wimey to mix things up. This isn’t your typical slasher story though, and the star of the show isn’t some all-powerful killing machine – in fact there’s very little overt threat at all. A group of kids travel to a lonely, out of the way location with some history of spooky goings-on.

Oxenfree begins like countless teen horror flicks.

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