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Her Story

Search a police video archive, watch short interviews and work out what happened from the words you choose to investigate.

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Created · Sam Barlow; starring Viva Seifert

Her Story gives you a police computer instead of a character to steer around a map. Its archive holds short video clips from seven interviews with a woman whose husband is missing. Type a word into the database, and it shows clips in which she says that word. Watch one, listen for another name or idea, then search again. The interviews are not handed to you in story order. You build your own path through the evidence, which is why two people can discover the same story in a different sequence. Viva Seifert performs the woman in the footage.

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The desktop and search windows in the gallery show what you actually use. The search box is inside the purple L.O.G.I.C. Database window, while results appear as video thumbnails below it. Clicking a thumbnail opens a clip. The clip window displays a date and time, so you can compare when two statements were recorded instead of relying only on the order you found them. You can also add clips to a session and type a user tag as a note. If a broad search has too many matches, the database shows only the first five results; try a more specific word from a clip rather than assuming the archive has only five videos. The different clothes in the gallery are visual clues about separate interviews, not different playable characters.

Sam Barlow released Her Story on June 24, 2015. The official site lists PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android versions. This is a mystery about listening and connecting details, not a game where you chase a suspect or win a timed puzzle. There is no need to look up an answer before playing: start with one search, follow the words you hear and make your own notes. If you want a spoiler-light explanation of the search screen and its five-result limit, the linked beginner guide walks through it with official screenshots.

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