From The Guardian: “The storytelling, however, is less focused. The Almost Gone touches on addiction, abuse, neglect, murder and more, all in less than three hours’ play. It’s a bit much, and in combination with slightly imperfect translation and an opaque ending, it means the narrative is less satisfying than the puzzle-solving. Some chapters play out better than others, but a more intimate tale might have worked better here. I’m reminded of The Gardens Between, a similar puzzle game, whose straightforwardly touching tale of separated childhood friends lands better than this tangle of more sinister plot threads. The Almost Gone draws you in with a sinister family mystery, but its aesthetic beauty and strange, succinct puzzles end up carrying it.”
