Things I Played: The Sexy Brutale – A Twisted Game About Rewinding Time
The Sexy Brutale isn’t a game I’d heard much about before I bought it last week. This is the fate of many indies game which don't have tens of millions of dollars into the marketing budget so I guess it's not surprising. However, I feel like doing Tequila Games a favour: their game is awesome and you should absolutely, completely, definitely play it. To describe The Sexy Brutale briefly, I'd say it's like a cross between Cluedo and Groundhog Day. To describe it in longer detail, I'd say it's puzzle game where you use time travel mechanics to save people from gruesome death s and that it's set in a swanky casino which you're invited to attend by a mysterious host who may or may not have a hidden agenda and that it's up to you to use the power of a trusty pocket watch to reverse time so that the others guests don't succumb to their mortal fate. Like most puzzle games there's a problem and it's namely this: you can’t be s...