Lux Pain

A femme looking person and a dog at a city at night. Dialogue reads 'So you have special powers too?'.
This was a bit of a strange one. It wasn’t until about halfway through that I even realised there was a romance mechanic, because it’s clearly not the focus of this whole thing. This is actually a game about seeing the spirits of people and using them to… solve crimes? Solve a mystery? But maybe the spirits are memories? It’s all a little confusing. Fun, but confusing.

The mechanics aren’t particularly well explained, which doesn’t help, but the characters are colourful and there are some interesting undertones.

You should play this if…

You don’t mind wading through some confusing mechanics to get through a slightly weird story. Okay, very weird. But there’s some unique elements here if you’re particularly keen on the subject matter (maybe do a bit of external research), otherwise you could probably give it a miss. It does drag a little. There are some queer ~vibes going on between some of the characters, but nothing in this game was clear enough for me to work out what the actual relationships were supposed to be.