Call it what you will-a walking simulator, if you’re being derogatory, or an adventure game if you’re into this type of thing. There are a few light puzzles to solve, but most of Ethan Carter involves merely finding those puzzles to begin with. You enter Red Creek Valley by way of a set of railroad tracks, and then you’re free to wander the (enormous) area pretty much at your leisure and gape at the scenery. Ominous, right? That’s all the direction you’re given. “There are places that exist that very few people can see,” says Prospero in his opening monologue. You play paranormal detective Paul Prospero, who’s been summoned by the titular Ethan Carter to solve a crime in the sleepy American-rustic Red Creek Valley. Or maybe more appropriately, a serialized set of Weird Fiction tales.Įthan Carter is a game about wandering. It’s a first-person adventure/mystery game that, despite its short (four-hour) length plays out in something of an episodic structure. To some extent, Ethan Carter is built for that style of slow, steady consumption. When I get tired of another review game I hop into Ethan Carter for a bit and wander around.
Heck, it’s rare I want to do that.īut I’ve been stretching The Vanishing of Ethan Carter as far as it will go-twenty minutes before bed here, half an hour during dinner there. It’s rare I get to do that during the fall reviews blitz. I’ve been dragging out The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.
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