Her Story, a game where you search a police database for clips pertaining to a fictional 1994 case, has been one of this summer's biggest surprises. Centering on a twisted narrative about the disappearance of a woman's husband, the shocking reveals and lingering ambiguity have kept players talking long after the credits have rolled. The crime mystery has yielded comparisons to highly praised media, such as True Detective and Serial, for how it grips you and keeps you thinking.
As of this writing, Her Story holds an 87 for PC and 90 for iOS on Metacritic. My own review for Game Informer comes with high praise for how the themes stay with you and forces you to pay attention in a way most games don't. Her Story is such a unique experience for video games, putting you in front a computer straight out of the '90s with only one goal: type in keywords to bring up video clips to discover more about the case. We couldn't resist chatting with creator Sam Barlow about topics ranging from its origins and ambiguity to if he had any doubts about its simplistic nature.
Sam Barlow isn't a stranger to the video game industry. He's best known for his work on games such as Aisle and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, but he's always had a yearning to bring crime fiction to video games in a compelling way.
"I've always wanted to do a police procedural thing," Barlow says. "It was kind of maddening to me; if you turn on TV or go to a book shop, there's so much that's police thrillers, serial-killer things, detective stories...it's huge. But it's never been big in video games, so I was always pitching publishers to do something with this."
Unfortunately, publishers were reluctant to take a chance on something of this nature, and Barlow was always met with skepticism. "That's probably a reflection of people realizing that this kind of material works so well on TV and in books because of the characters," Barlow says. "The mystery is driven by characters on TV with the performance and dialogue, and there's a challenge there with how video games traditionally work. How the hell do [video games] do justice to this material?"
Barlow recalls Rockstar's L.A. Noire as the closest thing to his vision, but notes even that had its problems, such as an awkward disconnect between the player and its main character, Cole Phelps. Barlow pointed to wonderful, nuanced performances followed by Phelps screaming at someone in a way the player didn't intend. Barlow also wanted to do something that focused more on a narrative instead of an open world.
It didn't hit him that this format could work on a smaller scale, until he noticed games like Device 6, Year Walk, and Blackbar. "I kept playing and thinking, 'This is really interesting stuff and these are made from teams of one to two people. They're able to do this really interesting work and they're finding an audience for it,'" Barlow recalls. "I could tell from just how jealous I felt towards those guys, that this [direction] was something that made sense."
Barlow decided to make a game by himself and never looked back. His very first idea was to place the entire game around a police interview, and the reasons behind that are more intriguing than you'd think.
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