What Remains of Edith Finch

 PlayStation 4
Metascore
88

Generally favorable reviews - based on 65 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 61 out of 65
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 65
  3. Negative: 0 out of 65
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  1. EGM
    Apr 28, 2017
    70
    What Remains of Edith Finch masterfully shows that narrative-driven games can tell stories in creative ways without sacrificing gameplay. Ultimately, though, the experience is let down by the story itself, which doesn’t do much of anything interesting with its characters or subject matter.
  2. Game Revolution
    Apr 25, 2017
    70
    Ultimately I consider What Remains of Edith Finch less essential than The Unfinished Swan, but certainly not less worthwhile. This is a moody, thoughtful, and often harrowing account of Edith and her tragedy-ridden kin, and if you’re the sort who finds tragic or adverse accounts to be of the highest profundity, you’ll likely adore what’s displayed throughout this exploration of mansion, mind, and psyche.
  3. Slant Magazine
    May 9, 2017
    70
    At its best, the game is a perfect marriage between the telling of a story and one's first-hand engagement with it.
  5. Video Chums
    Apr 29, 2017
    70
    What Remains of Edith Finch is an immersive and memorable experience that succeeds at pulling you into its richly detailed and dreamlike world. However, its short length and relatively high price point ultimately make it a questionable value proposition.
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  1. Eurogamer
    Apr 24, 2017
    An elegiac, memorable and affecting tale of the misfortunes suffered by the members of a deeply eccentric family. [Recommended]
  2. The Verge
    Apr 25, 2017
    The game is, despite what the synopsis would have you believe, a celebration of life and new beginnings — a washed-up star finding a new path, a shut in finally stepping out into the sunlight. Even a supposedly cursed family keeps fighting to live, and they have good reason to. I won’t spoil it. That’s the pleasure of the mystery.
  3. Wired
    May 2, 2017
    What Remains of Edith Finch is, above all, sincere, trying through even its most fantastical and gimmicky moments to tell a story about home, grief, and growing up.

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#5 Best PS4 Game of 2017
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#29 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2017
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#29 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2017

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User Score
8.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 880 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 702 out of 880
  2. Mixed: 132 out of 880
  3. Negative: 46 out of 880
  1. gamerone
    Apr 27, 2017
    10
    Great!!!!!! I can't describe how good this game is. Don't be fooled by people who says it's too short. Who give a f__K if it's short when theGreat!!!!!! I can't describe how good this game is. Don't be fooled by people who says it's too short. Who give a f__K if it's short when the game is so good.… Full Review »
  2. Mars1922
    Apr 29, 2017
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. I couldn't be more disappointed with this game. What the trailer presented and what the game turned out to be were completely different things. I wish I could get a refund of my time and money. I like walking simulators. I like graphic novels with a great story. And therein lies the problem with this game. The visuals are top of the line. Beautiful and realistic graphics. Well designed controls. The sound is without any faults. The story? Not so much. It centers around a teenage girl who comes back to her creepy and mysterious family home after being suddenly forced to leave years ago. She enters the house where all the rooms had been sealed by her mother years ago, and finds her way inside. There she finds journals and documents that explain the family "curse" if you can call it that.Everyone, dating back several decades, is dead. And all of them died disturbing and bizarre deaths. Reading the documents transports you into the final moments of each deceased member of her family. The first, a demented little girl who thinks that a sea monster killed her. A teen former child star whose grim and morbid ending plays out in what I can only describe as a scene stolen directly from Tales of the Crypt. Where she's murdered by...Halloween monsters? A giggling monster with a high pitched voice laughs his way through her story, and at the end, jokes about the only thing left of her being her severed ear. A little boy who kills himself by jumping off a swing in a scene that's over in less than 5 minutes. A toddler who kill himself by drowning in the tub in another 5 minute scene. The scenes are all mostly a few minutes in length, and then you crawl through secret passages into the next hidden room with a new morbid story. The problem is not that it's short. It's the story or stories. You finish the game and learn what happened to the protagonist- which is predictable- and you're still several stories short of what happened to several distant family members. But I couldn't care less. The brief several minute long glimpses into each family member's morbid and disturbing deaths feel short, empty, and pointless. Yes, the deaths are tragedies. But many of them aren't even based in reality, and you learn virtually nothing about each character. Except a short bio and then how they died. In the end everything is perfect...except for the story. If you think you'd enjoy a story about a girl who searches a house and finds journals that has 5 minute playable death scenes, then feel free to spend your time and money. I wish I hadn't. If not? Get Firewatch instead.… Full Review »
  3. AaronA
    May 1, 2017
    10
    Holy crap. Holy crap. They've done it again.

    Once again like The Unfinished Swan, you feel and experience emotions you've never felt    Holy crap. Holy crap. They've done it again.

    Once again like The Unfinished Swan, you feel and experience emotions you've never felt before. Something warm and cold and mysterious and comfortable all at the same time. I just finished the game and had to run to the computer to write this review, since I normally do not write any.

    Giant Sparrow display their amazing creativity in the gameplay mechanics found in each story of the family members. It's much like Gone Home, but with more variety and actual involvement to keep you interested.    … Full Review »
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