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- Golden Glitch
- Golden Glitch
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- Golden Glitch
Elsinore
Released On: Jul 23, 2019
68
6.3
All Platforms
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
68
17% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
67% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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0 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
68
17% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
67% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
There’s a lot of joy to be had uncovering Elisnore’s emotionally-loaded secrets and, providing you don’t push it too far, playing characters off against each other. Just don’t expect everyone to get a happy ending.
Elsinore is a game with a specific audience in mind. Lovers of Shakespeare and point-and-clicks will enjoy unraveling mysteries and creating alternate endings to Hamlet. While the game probably won’t entice anyone outside of that core audience, it still solidifies Golden Glitch as a studio to watch. This game proves that they’re a creative team with a talent for weaving story and gameplay together into a compelling whole.
To play, or not to play? If you like Shakespeare, definitely. But even if you dozed through high school English, the clever premise and time-loop puzzling make Elsinore a world worth exploring.
Putting my issues aside, the idea of participating in a full-fledged Hamlet universe works astonishingly well in Elsinore, and in contemporary society where classic literature is losing popularity, making such content accessible to a new audience is admirable, and I can only appreciate the ambition to revive Shakespeare through my favorite medium. Elsinore might be tedious at times, but I suppose that only enhances its status as a modern and authentic take on Hamlet.
Elsinore is simple and focused, aimed squarely at avid readers who want to manipulate Hamlet with their own hands. It succeeds at this, building a wonderfully meta-textual world that's fascinating to unravel and earns a good few gasps, laughs, and tearful moments, but the long waiting periods and frustration between different events overlapping can grate on after a while. Elsinore is time-looping <em>Hamlet</em>, and that premise is what will likely hook you or not.
Elsinore is like a beautiful little onion, and peeling away the layers over the course of a playthrough is sheer pleasure.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 User Ratings
6.3
43% Positive
3 Ratings
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29% Mixed
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 User Ratings
6.3
43% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
29% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
29% Negative
2 Ratings
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Summary Elsinore is a time-looping adventure game set in the world of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Elsinore combines strong social simulation elements, a dynamic story that reacts immediately to player decisions, and a world full of diverse characters with secrets to uncover.
Platforms:
- PC
Initial Release Date: Jul 23, 2019
Developer:
- Golden Glitch
Publisher: Golden Glitch
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