Her Story: the computer game where True Detective meets Google

Game designer Sam Barlow has created a new kind of crime adventure, which relies on subtext and perception rather than quick joypad skills In a cramped police interrogation room a woman is being questioned about her missing husband. Is he dead? Has she killed him? There are seven separate interviews, chopped up into short, teasing fragments, but the answers aren’t immediately obvious. It’s up the player to trawl through the video records and piece the mystery together. This is the bare bones