My partner and I finished this game in one sitting. It was great! The story was engaging and the puzzles were fun. This really scratched the itch for a good Nancy Drew-like game. I cannot wait for the second one to come out!

My one note is that I wish that the game gave you more direction. The task list was helpful, but I think that more tasks should have been included on it. There were times where I struggled with what to do next.

when Ronnie died, we were so shocked. Fully gasped and mouth agape. The final puzzle really had some challenge.

It's games like these where I really wish Steam had a better rating system than just a thumbs up/down, because I feel intensely mixed. The titular Alex Hill is full of charming snark, the story was a solid mystery that dealt with more mature topics well, and the many easter egg references to Nancy Drew games and other properties were a fun little delight. The puzzles were sparse, but I enjoyed all the ones that were there. I think as a series idea, these games have a LOT of promise., and I'm especially intrigued by the hints dropped concerning Alex's own backstory. This first showing, unfortunately, has quite a few rough patches that ended up frustrating me more than anything. Even with the brief run time that I have, a fair amount of my time was spent revisiting dialogue and clicking on places time and time again trying to get anything to change because the game wasn't registering my progression properly. The task list wasn't very in-depth and hints are basically nonexistent, so you need to talk to and call everybody repeatedly to even try and figure out what you're supposed to be doing - and sometimes the answer is just you needed to go to sleep, but there were no tasks or dialogue hints from the game indicating that. On top of that, I dealt with a lot of freezing issues (clicking to walk forward but nothing happens unless I click rapidly), or clicking to turn right instead clicking me out of the game window entirely. When you're trying to move from one end of the game to another, those little annoyances pile up rapidly. I think if you're a fan going through intense withdrawal over any point-and-click, Nancy Drew style mystery games, this is a small developer project to definitely support and provide your own feedback on. But I don't recommend this to a casual gamer getting introduced to the genre.

Alex Hill is filling a Nancy Drew-sized hole in my heart <3