"Don't be sad that I'm gone- be amazed that any of us had a chance of being here."

What Remains of Edith Finch is a first-person exploration video game developed by Giant Sparrow and published by Annapurna Interactive.

Story
In What Remains of Edith Finch you play as titular Edith Finch, a 17 year old last surviving member of her family, returning to ancestral home after 7 years to reexplore and uncover mysterious past to learn what caused the collapse of Finch household.

Gameplay
What Remains is a narrative-focused adventure game, where you explore Finch house through series of semi-linear locations. Walk around and interact with different items such as pictures to hear Edith's commentary, discover shortcuts to navigate the house with ease and find items to trigger a sequence related to certain family relative. These provide a variety of perspective, genre or gameplay mechanics to stand out and spice up core gameplay focused on...well, walking. Exploration too! But mostly walking.

Playtime and replayability
It took me 2 hours to complete the game, with extra hour spend on cleaning up achievements. It's a "quick one evening trip" type of a game, with your favourite stories being able to be replayed simply through menu.

Impressions
What Remains of Edith Finch is absolutely fantastic. Strongest point of it lies within implementation of magical realism into the stories of Edith family members, not only to add doubt about the events told across them for a player, but also to spice up the gameplay which quite often can puts away people from playing such games. Said element brings out the best out of presentation and makes each story a unique experience. You learn more about members of the family and their fates, story pieces start to slowly allign as mystery mist covering them disappears until finally blooming into bittersweat ending to top it off. It's a touching and brilliant story well put together, focusing on family, life, loss and hope, even though it does have a weaker moment or two.

If premise will grab you from the start, you will enjoy it to the finish, if not then it's artistic vision and storytelling might feel a bit cheap and lacking interactivity, while usual "walking sim" slower paced gameplay won't keep your interest either. I personally found it great from both aspects quite frankly, and a safe recommendation for those who seek a short title for an emotional evening, or look for a starting game to get into "narrative-focused, slower paced aka. walking sim" genre! So, what remains of Edith Finch? A great game, apparently.

Final words and conclusion
Be sure to grab Soundtrack DLC to further support the developers!

Crème de la crème of magical realism, What Remains of Edith Finch provides a touching, sad and beautiful story about love, with decent as for a genre it represents gameplay. Highly recommended!

Feel free to check out my curator page for more reviews!

This game really showcases the power of games in visual storytelling, while remaining incredibly accessible to all.

Might be the coolest way of storytelling in any game I have played! It only takes 2 hours to 100% and feels like a movie experience!