Invunche

This was a downloadable game where you navigate by clicking on parts of an image, needing occasional searching.

It’s a translation of a Spanish game (I found a tiny fragment of untranslated spanish early on, for ‘leave to the corridor’). It regards a legend of a local kind of monster called the Vunche or Invunche, in connection with witches.

It has three main gameplay segments: an intro on a ship, a larger village exploration section, and a short finale.

I liked the mysteries and legends aspects, and the slow unveiling of the plot was intriguing. Gameplay was generally satisfying, just clicking to each area, going through the possibilities, then following up on any directions in the Notes tab.

There might be two endings; I picked up a special item in the ship early on but didn’t use it. Actually, while writing this I loaded up my save game and tried using it but to no avail. So I wonder if more options were planned at one point but not implemented; that would make sense, as there isn’t much freedom to stray off the game’s chosen path, and most of the characters feel like they could use another scene or two for a full story arc. But the game that is here is polished, well-written, and fun.