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Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure is a multiple endings, detective and point & click game
developed by DigiTales Interactive
and published by Assemble Entertainment.
Released on March 25th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 6 languages: English, German, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 323 reviews of which 293 were positive and 30 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 15.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10 64-Bit
- Processor: Multi-core 2.5GHz
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce 750M / GeForce GTX 650
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 6 GB available space
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Between Horizons is a great adventure game! It's well-written and the story is interesting. I heartily recommend it to anyone who likes good stories and solving cases. The story explores life aboard a generation-ship in a way that is interesting even to adults with experience of real-world societal concerns. I enjoyed the game a lot! What really makes it shine is that you can solve the puzzles just by using logic and thorough investigation. You don't need to guess what the designer was thinking like in most other adventure games. It feels like you're a detective in a real world, and not in some convoluted, made-up story where you can't progress before you find the one pixel to click or the right, extremely far-fetched item combination. It's also extremely interesting that the story keeps going no matter how successfully (or not) you solve the cases. This also creates replayability. The lack of saving is annoying but you can work around it. Just copy the file lastsave.txt from folder C:\Users\<YourUserName>\AppData\LocalLow\DigiTales Interactive\Between Horizons\steam\<LargeNumber>. I saved a copy before submitting my solution to each case and this worked nicely, also for exploring alternatives without wasting time. Creators, please include free saving in this and future games. I can understand the impulse to leave saving out (to make the decisions more weighty and bla bla). Please get over yourselves. This never works in the real world. The worst part is that a single misclick can waste a lot of time and all of the goodwill the player might have for the developers. You gain nothing by annoying your players. Leaving free save out is like having only a single try at your driver's license examination. If you fail, redo the whole training. Sure, it's more exiting, but it's insane. Games are supposed to be a safe space where you can explore the game world in a low-stakes way. Player time is the most valuable commodity here. NEVER waste it.
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Between Horizons is almost brilliant. It's another sci-fi detective game by the makers of Lacuna, which was also great. This time the setting is a generation ship. You play a security officer who has to investigate a series of events that seem like they might destabilize the whole community, which would likely be catastrophic given your final destination is still over 100 years away. The graphics and music are fantastic. It's mostly pixel graphics but with parallax scrolling and occasional camera swivels that make each area feel bigger and more concrete. The music is kinda Adlib-style chip music, very moody, exactly the kind of computer game music that will evoke fond memories for kids of the 1990s. There is only a little bit of voice acting for the main character's noir-like monologues, but it is well done. The writing overall is great. People generally behave like adults, and everyone's emotions and motivations make sense. Unfortunately it falters a little bit on the mechanics. The game is relatively open and you are left to progress the cases at your own pace, but sometimes it's not clear what you actually have to do or who you have to speak to in order to trigger the next event. On top of that, over the course of the game you amass zillions of bits of evidence and it starts to get very confusing trying to search for the right person or topic to present to a suspect. Finally, although all of the cases can be solved with some degree of logical deduction based on the clues you are left, it's still "game logic" insofar as you don't really get to question everyone about everything, so it feels more like busywork than detective work. I kinda wish they had scrapped the "you can accuse the wrong person" gimmick and just focused on letting you pick your own path through the storyline with regard to who you show sympathy for, because the characters are strong enough and the story is good enough it didn't need all the puzzle game styled distractions. It's especially annoying when you get to the end and face a screen that says "you never figured out who killed X", which, like, so you want me to go replay the whole game again? Don't waste my time! Just tell me the whole story first time around! Yet even with the gameplay annoyances, Between Horizons is so pretty, so well-written, if you are into sci-fi, narrative adventures or detective games, it is well worth a playthrough. A flawed gem, still going on my favorites list. Can't wait for the next thing these devs put out.
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Well designed puzzles that escalate in difficulty as the cases grow more complex. The game offers minimal guidance in how to solve the cases which did result in me getting stumped a few times, but I actually greatly enjoyed that. It felt truly like a detective game. The story is also one I enjoyed. The twist at the end was not the one I was expecting which was a pleasant surprise! I got one ending but only solved 7/10 cases fully so I'll have to try again next run! One thing of note: The game does not allow you to manually save or load a specific save state. Your choices are final. There is no going back in one play through. So you will have to replay it fully to find out where you made the mistake. The game is a fairly short game though so I don't mind that all that much, but I understand others may.
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Really excellent mystery/sci-fi game. The setting is intriguing and the central issues around which the various mysteries circulate is genuinely not black-and-white and required serious consideration. The mysteries too are solid, but set up in a way that makes them very solvable (with the exception of the server access code that I did look up). I highly recommend this.
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Great story where you feel your decisions actually matter. I liked the mechanic of solving cases without pressure, but with commitment. Cases felt well designed, with a strong component of logic (rule out contradictions), out of the box thinking, and a tiny bit of intuition. I overall had a lot of fun playing Between Horizons!
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Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure is currently priced at 15.99€ on Steam.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 15.99€ on Steam.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure received 293 positive votes out of a total of 323 achieving a rating of 8.36.
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Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure was developed by DigiTales Interactive and published by Assemble Entertainment.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure is not playable on MacOS.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure is not playable on Linux.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure. Explore additional content available for Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure on Steam.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure does not support Steam Remote Play.
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DigiTales Interactive
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Assemble Entertainment
Release
25 Mar 2024
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