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Abscission

92% positive of 121 Steam reviews

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Released
2023
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam

Made by Beyond Booleans.

About the game

Abscission is a Lovecraftian, story-driven horror point-and-click investigation game. It involves searching crime scenes for evidence, combining clues and questioning suspects. Puzzles can have multiple solutions as you guide the protagonist - Detective Will Stanhope - through the story.

Tagged by players

  • Detective
  • Point & Click
  • Crime
  • Horror
  • Choices Matter
  • Multiple Endings
  • Investigation
  • Story Rich
  • Mystery
  • Pixel Graphics
  • Adventure
  • Old School

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What players say

  • Recommended
    There isn't much to say about the gameplay, it was pretty basic and simple, and something you'd come to expect of a point-and-click title (some of the puzzles and object findings were meh at best and could've been tweaked abit). Overall though I still enjoyed it and the story/artwork was really it's strong suites.

    11 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    Dunno why ppl nagging ab the art.. I myself dig the retro pixel aesthetics but find the music lacking. Part of the game is just silent. Anyways, so far so good

    33 min played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    I played and finished the game in about 2 hours. Steam only shows 0.2 hours, because I ran the game using the winsetup.exe in the install folder instead of abscission.exe, but more on that later. First things first, I believe this game was made by a single person or at least a very small team. That deserves respect and is a real accomplishment. There is a lot of potential here, as the story is superbly creepy and…

    9 min played when written. 12 found it helpful.

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