The Painscreek Killings is a first-person, explorable mystery solving game set in a fictional town of United States in the 1990s. As a young and upcoming journalist, you are to uncover the secrets behind the town killings and publish the truth in the city papers. As Janet, a young and upcoming journalist, you have been asked by your editor to investigate the mysterious abandonment of a once lively town. Based on the information released by the media about the deaths of the townspeople, you set foot into the town thinking you would find an interesting story to publish, only to uncover secrets that were meant to stay hidden forever.
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Grave, contemplative, earnest and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Developer
- EQ Studios
- Publisher
- Meridian4
- Released
- September 27, 2017
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person
- Engine
- Unity
IGDB rating 7.2/10 from 30 ratings.
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