Hindsight

 PC
Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Game Rant
    Aug 31, 2022
    90
    Tackling tragedy in games is important, but doing it well requires empathy, awareness, and a deft hand. Hindsight takes an important story and makes it relevant and relatable by scaling down its narrative to a quiet, personal level. Hampered only slightly by a few design choices, its masterful blending of art, music, interactivity, and writing make it a subtle triumph and a story well worth being told.
  2. Digital Chumps
    Aug 5, 2022
    85
    Hindsight is effective with its emotional intentions, powerful in its storytelling, and light in its interactivity options. You may not play this more than once, but the impact of the game’s purpose will resonate for a while.
  3. Edge Magazine
    Sep 8, 2022
    80
    As this game invites us to reconsider our relationships with loved ones while they're still around, the benefit of Hindsight couldn't be clearer. [Issue#376, p.118]
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  5. SpazioGames
    Aug 4, 2022
    80
    As its name suggests, Hindsight is a fascinating journey in a story of memories and self awareness. With its touching soundtrack, the experience is a delicate way of telling us a story of an ordinary person in an ordinary world, and this is what makes the game so close and relatable.
  6. Multiplayer.it
    Aug 3, 2022
    80
    Hindsight is not your average narrative adventure. From the visuals, resembling the incompleteness of personal memories and rememberings, to the sound, vibrating during the whole story with perfectly cadence rhythm, everything here feels methodically thought through. And that is not something you see everyday in the contemporary video game industry.
  7. Noisy Pixel
    Aug 3, 2022
    80
    Hindsight offers a look into a life that could very easily be one of our own. It’s a glimpse into a very personal subject that many people can relate to and handles it with maturity and grace. As a game, it offers a short, bittersweet ride that might be too costly for some. But as an ‘experience,’ it delivers satisfying emotional catharsis and is a poignant reminder that we don’t always know the whole story regarding our friends and family.
  8. GameSpew
    Aug 5, 2022
    70
    As a game, Hindsight doesn’t fully deliver. Its interactions are clunky, inconsistent and occasionally annoying, detracting from what really matters here: the narrative. But that narrative alone is so poignant and beautifully told that it’s worth pushing through for. This isn’t a story that’s going to blow you away, excite you or even uplift you. Real, complex grief is a difficult subject to broach, but Hindsight deals with it masterfully. The raw human emotion captured here makes it worth the journey – and, just maybe, if you’re grieving yourself, it might validate some of your own emotions.
  9. IGN Italia
    Aug 4, 2022
    70
    Hindsight is a short and compelling adventure about memories and identity. When mechanics, storytelling and rhythm blends together, Joel McDonald's game is brilliant and gives wonderful perspective about our relationship with our past and with the people we love. On the other hand, the sleek and very keen mechanic which the game is based on, sometimes feels like nothing more than an aesthetic exercise and some bits of the game are less entertaining and meaningful.
  10. Twinfinite
    Aug 3, 2022
    70
    The story is excellent, the art is fantastic, and a lot of people are going to relate to its message. However, if you’re going into the game thinking that it is going to be the next big breakout indie of the year, then you might come away a little disappointed.
  11. Eurogamer Italy
    Aug 24, 2022
    60
    Hindsight tries to tell a very deep story full of thoughts on the past and the future. Unfortunately the gameplay is too minimalist and the short duration fails to enhance its merits.
  12. Checkpoint Gaming
    Aug 9, 2022
    60
    Hindsight is an interesting analysis of the ways we can play with memories via the use of objects that symbolise important aspects of our lives. The game’s mechanic that allows players to explore the protagonist’s memories and piece them together will be something that most will connect with as our memories shape the way we see the world. However, it is the pace of these memories that lead to frustration and a disconnect from the story. The narrative, though beautifully written, is constantly repeating itself and becomes tiresome pretty quickly. Hindsight is an aesthetically beautiful game with fun and thought-provoking gameplay that unfortunately lacks in its narrative execution.

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User Score
5.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 5 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 5
  3. Negative: 2 out of 5
  1. lessacebola
    Dec 6, 2022
    7
    É um jogo com uma história emocionante e uma trilha sonora bem bonita, porém em vários momentos o ritmo acaba sendo bem lentinho, isso tira umÉ um jogo com uma história emocionante e uma trilha sonora bem bonita, porém em vários momentos o ritmo acaba sendo bem lentinho, isso tira um pouco o impacto da história. A mecânica de ficar arrastando o mouse até encontrar algo para interagir é confusa e muitas vezes não deixa óbvio o que deve ser feito.… Full Review »
  2. grihajedy
    Aug 5, 2022
    6
    For the first time, I will not recommend a game with a more or less unique gameplay, it seems that indie games are also slowly turning intoFor the first time, I will not recommend a game with a more or less unique gameplay, it seems that indie games are also slowly turning into "conveyor", so we came up with 1 mechanic that no one had used before, applied on it a standard visual, a tearful everyday story about mother-daughter relationship, and that’s it, connoisseurs will buy, but we didn’t count on a million sales.
    Yes, of course, it's interesting that you just need to rotate the camera, look for a suitable angle to move into the next scene, an unusual Point-and-Click game turns out, but something else is missing besides the basic mechanic, the gameplay is not even diluted with other mechanics, well, a couple of times they will let you choose what memorabilia you will put in a suitcase in which there is not enough space, and move something a couple of times, but in general, it is incredibly boring to play, you will just speedrun with music or a video on YouTube, without even entering the atmosphere, the game does not look like a holistic creative work with some general idea of ​​​​creating it, here it would be possible to come up with some kind of game about directing films and searching for a cool angle, but here some kind of indie unique consumer goods turned out) eh, Annapurna, why did you give money on this.

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    Первый раз я не порекомендую игру с более менее уникальным геймплеем, такое ощущение, что инди-игры тоже потихоньку скатываются в конвеер, вот мы придумали 1 механику, которую никто раньше не использовал, накладываем на это стандартненький, но приятненький визуал, слезливую бытовую историю об отношениях матери и дочери, и готово, ценители купят, а на миллион продаж мы итак не рассчитывали.
    Да, конечно, интересно, что надо просто вращать камеру, искать подходящий ракурс, чтобы продвинуться в следующую сцену, необычный Point-and-Click получается, но как же не хватает чего-то ещё кроме базовой механики, геймплей даже не разбавляется другими механикам, ну пару раз вам дадут выбрать какую памятную вещь вы положите в чемодан, в котором мало места, и пару раз что-то передвинуть, в общем, невероятно скучно играть, в итоге просто спидранишь под музыку или видео на ютубе, даже не проникаясь атмосферой, игра не смотрится целостным творческим произведением с какой-то общей идеей её создания, тут можно было бы вообще придумать каукю-то игру про режиссуру и поиск крутого ракурса, а так, какой-то инди уникальный ширпотреб, получается) эх, annapurna, на что вы денег дали в этот раз.    … Full Review »
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