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  • Summary: Inner Ashes is a first-person narrative adventure. Throughout a father-daughter touching story and dreamlike scenarios, the player will experience how Alzheimer's affects a person and his memories.

    Our main character, Henry, must take an introspective trip through two different realities in
    Inner Ashes is a first-person narrative adventure. Throughout a father-daughter touching story and dreamlike scenarios, the player will experience how Alzheimer's affects a person and his memories.

    Our main character, Henry, must take an introspective trip through two different realities in order to remember why he and his only daughter, Enid, have been estranged for so long.
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  1. Jul 11, 2023
    70
    You have to send credit the way of the development team for tackling a subject like this, dealing with it in a compassionate and heartfelt way. There's no doubt that the story of Inner Ashes is very good, with a great representation of the struggles involved in coping with Alzheimer's. But the pacing can feel too slow at times and if I am being picky there are a few too many Tetris-styled puzzles.
  2. Jul 31, 2023
    60
    Inner Ashes is a game that tries very hard to deliver facts about a terrible real world disease mixed with an emotional story in a videogame and it misses the mark for me. As a walking simulator at it’s core the gameplay is expected to be a little slow, however they can hold their own ground when they come with great stories. Unfortunately Inner Ashes is mediocre for me. I appreciate all of the interesting facts I learned about Alzheimer’s Disease because of this game but the mechanism they used, a videogame, doesn’t quite align with this presentation as something interesting enough to hold my attention.