Expelled!

I loved every minute of this game. It is filled with mystery and chaos and even once you have finished it and the credits roll, you should play again because I promise there’s more to discover. With that said, it’s got a lot of glitches and lapses in logic within the gameplay. My best example is that you are able to tell one of the teachers about an injury another student has endured that she already knows about and she will run to the nurse as though she’s hearing about it for the first time.

I bought this game as a bundle with the overboard game and I personally loved overboard! I did not feel as much love for expelled however, because I was not told about the themes in the game until having played it. There is blasphemy in it…according to the game after I had already played two rounds. Obviously, I didn’t get very far lol because I am not very good at games like these, but I will say I would have rather had a warning last time. I am a Christian and I would not have purchased this game if I had known. I adore the art style and the idea that you must convince everyone that you didn’t do it, but I don’t love the blasphemy part. Thanks! (No offense to the creators, it’s just not for me.) P.s. if I missed anything in the description, which I’m quite sure I didn’t, then I am so sorry! 😊

When you find a strategy to escape blame and perfectly execute your plan make it through the term, it’s so satisfying. But it’s also just the start! There are so many secrets and hidden facets of the game to be discovered; going about my day I couldn’t stop thinking of loose ends I could pull and things I could do the next time I played. There are so many ways to play Verity, and your choices really matter! Not just because they affect the way each run goes, but because they change who your Verity actually is, what she wants, and what she’s willing to do. The way all your choices and rewinds are contextualized in the narrative is brilliant, and the structure of the game keeps prodding you to try different things and discover new interactions. It takes all the complexity of Overboard! and makes it look like a prototype. I’ve never played anything like Expelled!